Juliette Wytsman (''

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'' Trullemans; 14 July 1866 – 8 March 1925) was a Belgian

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painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

. She was married to painter Rodolphe Wytsman. Her paintings are in the collections of several museums in Belgium.

Life

Wytsman was born as Juliette Trullemans on 14 July 1866 in

Brussels Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit ...

in Belgium.Juliette Wytsman-Trulemans

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, 2014. Retrieved on 15 February 2015. She first studied under Henri Hendrickx at the Bischoffsheim Institute in Brussels. She later worked in the workshop of in

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, where she specialized in the painting of flowers.Juliette Wytsman (Brussels, 1866 - 1925)
, Belart International. Retrieved on 16 February 2015. At Capeinick's workshop, she met painter Rodolphe Wytsman. He was a founding member of

Les XX ''Les XX'' ( French; "''Les Vingt''"; ; ) was a group of twenty Belgian painters, designers and sculptors, formed in 1883 by the Brussels lawyer, publisher, and entrepreneur Octave Maus. For ten years, they held an annual exhibition of their a ...

and introduced her to this circle of avant-garde artists. They married in 1886 and moved to

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, near Brussels, in 1892. During

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, they fled Belgium and lived in

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in the

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. Wytsman died on 8 March 1925, at the age of 58, in

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in Belgium.

Painting

Wytsman was an

painter of landscapes and gardens. Wytsman exhibited her work at the

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at the 1893

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in Chicago, Illinois. The Royal Museum of Fine Arts in

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, the

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, and the Museum of Fine Arts in

Collectie
Vlaamse kunstcollectie. Retrieved on 16 February 2015. have paintings of Wytsman in their collections. File:Juliette Wytsman001.jpg, ''Spiraea'' File:Der gemuesegartenwytsmanjuliette2.JPG, ''The vegetable garden'' File:Juliette Wytsman 2.jpg, ''The flower garden'' File:Landschap met klokbloemen Juliette Wytsman Collectie- Mu.Zee inventarisnummer- SM002395.jpg, ''Landscape with bell flowers''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wytsman, Juliette 1866 births 1925 deaths Painters from Brussels Belgian Impressionist painters 19th-century Belgian women artists 20th-century Belgian women artists