Edgard Tytgat

3 albums/76 artworks – Edgard Tytgat (1879 – 1957) was a Belgium expressionist painter, cover artist and engraver. He combined expressionism with a poetic, sometimes dreamy style. Tytgat spent his youth in Bruges, until the family moved to Brussels in 1888. After a failed attempt to become a clock-maker, he attended the Brussels Fine Arts Academy in 1897. As a young painter, he was influenced by the fauvism that had come to the city from Paris. This new tendency in art reached its peak between 1905 and 1907, and prepared the way for expressionism. Edgard Tytgat joined the Brabant fauvists, who were under the influence of impressionists and humanists and gathered around the figure of Rik Wouters. During the First…

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