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DeutschLouis Tytgadt
Louis Tytgadt or Tijtgadt[1] (1841–1918) was a Belgian painter.
Born in Lovendegem (East Flanders]) on 20 April 1841,[1] Tytgadt studied at the Royal Academy for Fine Arts in Ghent, and in the Paris studio of Alexandre Cabanel.[2] In June 1875, Tytgadt visited the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, together with the French artist Eugène Fromentin.[3] In 1880 Tytgadt became a teacher at the Ghent academy. By 1892, until 1902, he was director of the academy and its museum. He established the academy's decorative arts section.[4] In 1902 the museum became a separate institution, the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, with Tytgadt sitting on the board.[2] He also served as deputy chair of the Provincial Commission for the Preservation of Monuments and Landscapes.[5] He died in Ghent in 1918.
During his career, Tytgadt exhibited at the Paris Salon (1888)[1] and the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893).[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Tytgadt, Louis". RKD Research.
- ^ a b Johan De Smet (5 December 2023). "Onder vrienden: Lezers van de Gazette van Gent van Louis Tytgadt". MSK Gent.
- ^ Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu, "Nineteenth-Century Visitors to the Frans Hals Museum", in The Documented Image: Visions in Art History, edited by Gabriel P. Weisberg and Laurinda S. Dixon with the assistance of Antje Bultmann Lemke (Syracuse University Press, 1987), p. 135.
- ^ Gand artistique: revue mensuelle illustrée. Vol. 1. 1922. p. 42.
- ^ Dubbele wegwyzer der stad Gent en der provincie Oost-Vlaenderen. Vol. 53. 1915. p. 364.
- ^ Trumbull White; William Igleheart (1893). The World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. pp. 357–358.