Renaat Bosschaert (1938–2006) was a Belgian artist working in painting, graphic arts, sculpture, ceramic arts, engraving and printmaking.

Biography

Renaat Bosschaert was born in Belgium on 18 November 1938, at

Ostend Ostend ( ; ; ; ) is a coastal city and municipality in the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It comprises the boroughs of Mariakerke, Raversijde, Stene and Zandvoorde, and the city of Ostend proper – the la ...

. He studied in Brussels at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts. From 1977 he sold his graphic works, paintings and publications at his house in

Bruges Bruges ( , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders, in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is in the northwest of the country, and is the sixth most populous city in the country. The area of the whole city amoun ...

, where he had two 19th-century iron presses and a lithographic press. He is noted for his small-run, large-format art folios, which feature his engravings, woodcuts and typograph

pulled by hand in his studio. He published illustrated limited editions of works by historic Belgian authors

Guido Gezelle Guido Pieter Theodorus Josephus Gezelle (1 May 1830 – 27 November 1899) was an influential writer and poet and a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium. He is famous for the use of the West Flemish dialect, but he also wrote in other languages ...

and

Felix Timmermans Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans (5 July 1886 – 24 January 1947) is a much translated author from Flanders. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Life Timmermans was born in the Belgian city of Lier, as the thi ...

, and produced work with local and contemporary writers such as

Anton van Wilderode Cyriel Paul Coupé (1918–1998) was a Belgian diocesan priest, teacher, writer and poet, also known by the pseudonym Anton van Wilderode. Life Coupé was born in Moerbeke-Waas on 28 June 1918. He was ordained as a priest on 21 May 1944 in the ...

. His works are in the collections of the

Royal Library of Belgium The Royal Library of Belgium ( ; ; , abbreviated ''KBR'' and sometimes nicknamed in French or in Dutch) is the national library of Belgium. The library has a history that goes back to the age of the Duke of Burgundy, Dukes of Burgundy. In ...

and the university libraries of Brussels and Antwerp. In 2002, when Bruges was designated a 'European cultural capital', he printed and published, ''Zeven Brugse dichters 2002'', in which each poem is accompanied by one of Bosschaert's lino-cuts. Renaat Bosschaert died on 30 December 2006. His daughter, Greet, is an illustrator of children's books.

External links

Obituary in ''De Standaard'' (Dutch)Biography with photograph on Bosschaert family geaneology website (Dutch)A list of the works of Renaat Bosschaert in the collection of the Royal Library of Belgium
1938 births 2006 deaths Artists from Ostend 20th-century Belgian illustrators Belgian printmakers 20th-century Belgian painters 20th-century Belgian engravers {{Printmaker-stub

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