René Vanden Berghe
Oostende, °1926 - † 1980
Profession: Art Painter
- Pupil of the Academy of Bruges (with E. Rommelaere and R. De Pauw)
- Prize Godecharles in 1947
- Prize of the province of West Flanders in 1950
- Grand Prix of Rome in 1955
- Prize Olivetti
- Teacher at the Municipal Art Academy in Oostende
Career & Work:
Portraits, figures, still lifes, flowers... style influenced by both Fauvism and expressionism.
Collections:
- Oostende, Museum of Fine Arts
- Bruges, socialist mutuality
- Brussels, portraits Gallery of Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies
- Brussels, Centre for Fine Arts
- Private collections in Milan, New York, Stockholm
Bibliography:
- N. Hostyn, Beeldend Oostende, Bruges, 1993
- E. De Vooght, René Vanden Berghe, Bruges, 1996
- Lexicon of West-Flemish visual artists, 3, Bruges, 1994
- P. Piron, the Belgian visual artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, (Brussels), (1999)
Some pictures of the artist and his works
