Gaston Bogaert
Gaston Bogaert (1918 in Le Mans – 2008 in Etterbeek) was a Belgian painter. Bogaert was a surrealist painter. He uses symbols and unreal images to create a romantic and upsetting mood. • Museum: Cagnes-sur-Mer, Verviers, Charleroi, Sint-Martens-Latem, Antwerp, Brasília, Rockefeller Art Center of New York City, Victoria Art Gallery in Canada and Tel Aviv • Exhibitions: Brussels, Lille, Knokke, Sint-Martens-Latem, Mons, Antwerp, Basel, Paris, Cologne, Hauterive, Cannes, The Hague, Athens, Luxembourg, Turin, Ostend, Mechelen, Lokeren, Liège, Strasbourg, Clermont-Ferrand and Annecy • Awards: Fantastic and fantasy award (Belgium) for best artist at the 1978 Eurocon in Brussels, Belgium
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Gaston Bogaert
- Born
- 1918 · Le Mans.
- Died
- 2008 · Etterbeek.
- Nationality
- Belgium · France
- Occupation
- painter · architect · university teacher · draftsperson · artist · illustrator
- Movements
- surrealism
- Languages
- French
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Gaston Bogaert, a draughtsman, graphic artist, illustrator and painter, was born in 1918 in Le Mans and died in 2008.
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1918
Gaston Bogaert was born in 1918 at Le Mans.
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Gaston Bogaert died in 2008 at Etterbeek.
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- Bogaert, Gaston, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
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- "Dictionnaire des peintres belges nés entre 1750 & 1875" par P. & V. Berko - Knokke (1981), .
- Bogaert par Marcel Fryns - Éditions Art et Industrie - Paris (1968)
- L'Art vivant en Belgique par Marcel Emans - Éditions Medens, Bruxelles (1972)
- Contemporary belgian painters and sculptors - Éditions Van Wiemeersch, Gand (1973)
- Bogaert - par Jean Daleveze - Préface de Maurice Rheims - Éditions Art et Industrie Paris - Éditions Dereume - Bruxelles (1973)
- Bogaert et les maisons suspectes - Quinze contes de Thomas Owen (de l'Académie Royale de Langue et de Littérature françaises de Belgique) -Jacques Antoine (éditeur) (1976)
- 50 artistes de Belgique par Jacques Collard - Éditions Louis Musin - Bruxelles (1977)
- Lexikon der Phantastischen Malerei - Dumont Burhverlag - Köln (1977)
- Les dessins de Bogaert, présentés par Paul Caso - Éditions Arts et Voyages - Lucien De Meyer Éditeur, Brussels - (1977)
- L'Art en Belgique - Éditions d'Art, Bruxelles (1978)
- Hivernales, textes de S. Kuhnen de la Cœuillerie, Noëlle Lans, Anne Laurence, Andrée Sodenkamp, Robert Gérard, Thomas Owen, Désiré Roegiest, Germain Thomson. - Guy Pieters, Éditeur - Laethem-Saint-Martin (1978)- Ouvrage publié également en langue néerlandaise sous le titre : Winterlanden
- Bogaert ou la figuration spiritualisée - Texte de Philippe Cruysmans - Préface de François-Xavier Ortoli - Éditions Malvaux - Bruxelles 1979
- Du surréel au fantastique - 13 peintres européens contemporains - De Jean-Louis M. Monod - Préface de Marcel Schneider - (Ouvrage collectif) - Éditions Alain Lefeuvre - Nice - (1980)
- Les chambres secrètes - Vingt contes de Thomas Owen inspirés par vingt tableaux de Bogaert. - Éditions Delta - (1983)
- Bogaert de Marcel Van Jole - Éditions Arte et Bibliopress - Genève - Paris - Anvers (1983)
- Un siècle de peinture wallonne, de Paul Caso. Éditions Rossel - Bruxelles (1984)
- Histoire de la peinture belge, de Jo Gérard et R. de B. de Sauvigny. - Éditions J.M. Collet - Bruxelles (1984)
- Les arts en Europe - Éditions Artis Documenta. Monaco (1985)
- L'énigme du temps - Éditions Galerie 2016. Hauterive (1989)
- Regard sur les peintures et dessins de Bogaert, par Guy Dessicy-Galerie 2016-Hauterive-Neuchâtel (2007)
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