Roger Wittevrongel

Consequently, he was professor etching, drawing and lithography at the Royal Academy for Fine Arts in Ghent until 1997, where he got the title of honorary professor since then. • Illustration — 7 Monroestreet Washington DC in Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek In 1954, Wittevrongel made his debut in the atmosphere of Octave Landuyt, yet more in an abstract way, with work around destruction, devastation and animal heads. Around 1964, he started to paint more figuratively, mainly architectural compositions decorated with vegetable elements and female nudes surrounded by a wide range of attributes (for example painting and drawing tools). Around 1970 he comes to a hyperrealistic style with an absolute accuracy in the reproduction of what the eye could see. However, he continued to evolve within this style and concentrated on trivial subjects, which he also depicted with the greatest precision. The subjects themselves - interiors, fragments of architecture and female characters, are treated as still-lives, which gives them an abstract quality. These works in particular raise questions concerning man's relationship with visible reality. Here the astonishment is less evoked by the technical virtuosity but more by the question of the meaning of existence. Wittevrongel exhibits since 1954 in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, Morocco, Brazil, Tunisia, the United States, Canada, South Africa, Taiwan. • Prizes • Mention Young Belgian Painting Award in 1958, 1960, 1963 • Provincial painting prize of West Flanders in 1960 • Critics prize in 1979 and 1981 • E. Van Marcke prize in 1981 • State prize in recognition of an artistic career in 1984 At present he lives in Bachte-Maria-Leerne near the Lys, close to Deinze in the province of East Flanders in Belgium.

Roger Wittevrongel studied at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent. Places of work recorded in the authority are Ghent. Work by Roger Wittevrongel is recorded in the collections of Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK), Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Mu.ZEE - Kunstmuseum aan Zee and National Bank of Belgium.

• Name — Roger Wittevrongel • Born — 23 April 1933 • Birthplace — Blankenberge • Occupation — * Painter • draughtsman • graphic artist