Art Of The Day Weekly
#502 - from 15 February 2018 to 21 February 2018
Jean Brusselmans, Lady on the Sofa, 1937, oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Brusselmans, reflects of provincial life
THE HAGUE – He is one of the artists forgotten by Belgian and European painting in the first half of the 20th century. Jean Brusselmans (1884-1953), in spite of being the colleague of Rik Wouters, never equaled his celebrity. This may be due to an overly sedentary life, in his little town in the Brabant region, to his preference for the simple scenes in daily life, to his refusal to be wrapped up in one of the “isms” of his time, in particular Flemish expressionism? Bucolic landscapes, fishing scenes, the interiors of ordinary people’s homes, the rhythm of the seasons: his universe is both limited and universal.
• Jean Brusselmans, my Flemish Fatherland at the Gemeentemuseum, from 18 February to 10 June 2018.