Gustave De Smet

Gustave Franciscus De Smet, also known as Gustaaf De Smet and Gust De Smet was a Belgian painter and printmaker. Together with Constant Permeke and Frits Van den Berghe, he was one of the founders of Flemish Expressionism. Some of the works of the Flemish expressionists bear a stylistic relationship to German expressionism through their use of distorted forms, coloration and dynamic compositions while others show cubist elements in their sense of balance, synthesis and construction. Before World War I, these artists were part of the second group of the Latem School, a loose group of artists working at various times in the rural Lys river area around Sint-Martens-Latem, south of Ghent. They aimed to innovate Belgian art by turning away from bourgeois art and drawing inspiration from nature or the live of workers and farmers. Key members of the group fled Belgium at the start of World War I to countries where they were exposed to the latest Modernist art trends. De Smet fled to the Netherlands, where his development of an expressionist idiom was influenced by the Bergen School, the first expressionist art movement in the Netherlands, as well as the German expressionists.

Excerpt from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Expressionism

Also known as Gust. de Smet, Gustaaf de Smet, Gustave de Smet, Gustave Desmet, Gustave Franciscus de Smet

Works in museum collections

Open-access images (public domain, CC0 or CC BY) from museum collections, each shown with its credit line and licence.

Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By). See data sources & attribution.

Related artists — Belgian, born 1852–1902

• James Ensor Belgian · 1860–1949 · 79 results
• Constant Permeke Belgian · 1886–1952 · 13 results
• Léon Spilliaert Belgian · 1881–1946 · 4 results
• Valerius de Saedeleer Belgian · 1867–1941 · 2 results
• Nicolas Eekman Belgian · 1889–1973 · 4 results
• Frits Van den Berghe Belgian · 1883–1939
• René Magritte Belgian · 1898–1967 · 421 results
• Pol Dom Belgian · 1885–1978 · 107 results
• Frans Masereel Belgian · 1889–1972 · 104 results
• Paul Delvaux Belgian · 1897–1994 · 93 results
• Alfred Ost Belgian · 1884–1945 · 56 results
• George Minne Belgian · 1866–1941 · 54 results