Anna De Weert

Anna De Weert, née Cogen; Anna Virginie Caroline De Weert (27 May 1867, Ghent – 12 May 1950, Ghent) was a Belgian painter. She would paint in the Luminist style.

Life

Weert was born in Ghent as Anna Virginie Caroline Cogen. Her family were prosperous with a high regard for nature, art and in particular watercolours. Her grandfather was the writer Karel Lodewijk Ledeganck and her uncles, Alphons and Felix Cogen, were successful painters. Her father died when she was two so she grew up in the care of her extended family and in particular her mother and grandmother.Anna De Weert
Francis Maere Fine Arts, Retrieved 1 May 2017
Each summer she was taken to the family's home at Menton in the South of France. This summer holiday became an annual tradition all her life. She first formally studied art at the Academy of Ghent. In 1891 she married , who was a politician.

In the 1890s, she was a private (pro bono) student of the Belgian painter Emile Claus. She and her husband spent summers with him in the 1890s. In 1895, she acquired a new studio as she had bought a farm at Afsnee near Ghent, beside the river Lys, which had belonged to a Dominican Monastery.
Claus painted her in a river scene in 1899. She recorded what her own studio in Afsnee looked like in about 1909.

Anna Cogen was a productive artist and had a long association with the ''Cercle Artistique et Littéraire'' in her home town after she first exhibited there in 1895. From 1895 to 1937, she continued to participate in Belgian and European salons. She was invited to the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1907. Five of her works were sold in Zurich in 1908. When it was 1911, she had become one of the prominent artists from Belgium, representing at the International Exhibition of Women Artists in Turin. Her paintings primarily involved landscapes, interiors, and portraits. She was also part of the ''Vie et Lumière'' group; "Light, love, life" was the symbol of her life. In addition to her artistic work, she gave art lectures and wrote many articles.

Gallery

File:Tonnelle de rosiers (Anna De Weert).jpg, Tonnelle de rosiers
File:The poppies.jpg, The Poppies
File:Anna-de-Weert-My-Studio-in-June-1909-10.jpg, "My Studio" in 1909/10
File:Bloemen in de tuin - Anna De Weert - Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek mudel - 0613-WEE.a2.jpg, Flowers in the garden
File:Boomgaard aan atelier - Anna De Weert - Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek mudel - 1084-WEE.a4.jpg, Orchard next to studio

Death and legacy

She died in Ghent in 1950. In her will she left the painting of her to the museum in Ghent together with a work by George Minne and two old masters.

References

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1867 births
1950 deaths
Painters from Ghent
Belgian painters
19th-century Belgian painters
20th-century Belgian painters
20th-century Belgian women painters
19th-century Belgian women painters