The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent (, KASK) is an art school that is one of the oldest art schools in
Belgium
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. It is a part of the
Hogeschool Gent
HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts (University College Ghent, ), often shortened to just HOGENT, is the largest university college in Flanders, with seven faculties, one School of Arts and over 17,000 students as of 2022. During his studies in Paris, Marissal had become impressed by the , and was inspired to create a similar establishment in his home city. The Academy was granted a royal charter in 1771 by empress
Maria Theresa of Austria
Maria Theresa (Maria Theresia Walburga Amalia Christina; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was the ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position in her own right. She was the sovereig ...
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In 1995, the Academy was one of the sixteen educational institutions that were merged into the
Hogeschool Gent
HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts (University College Ghent, ), often shortened to just HOGENT, is the largest university college in Flanders, with seven faculties, one School of Arts and over 17,000 students as of 2022.Carl De Keyzer
Carl De Keyzer (27 December 1958) is a Belgian photographer. Major subjects in his work have included the collapse of the Soviet Union, and India. He became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1994. De Keyzer has exhibited his work in many Europea ...
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Pieter-Frans De Noter
Pieter-Frans De Noter (23 February 1779, Walen, near Mechelen – 22 November 1842, Ghent) was a Flemish
Flemish may refer to:
* Flemish, adjective for Flanders, Belgium
* Flemish region, one of the three regions of Belgium
*Flemish Community, ...
(1779–1842)
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Félix De Vigne
Félix De Vigne (16 March 1806 – 5 December 1862) was a Belgian painter.
He was a history painter, engraver, art historian, and instructor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium, the city of his birth. In 1847, he published , an i ...
(1806–1862)
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Jean-François Portaels
Jean-François Portaels or Jan Portaels (3 April 1818 – 8 February 1895) was a Belgium, Belgian Painting, painter of genre scenes, biblical stories, landscapes, portraits and orientalism, orientalist subjects. He was also a teacher and directo ...
(1818–1895)
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Raoul Servais
Raoul Servais (1 May 1928 – 17 March 2023) was a Belgian filmmaker, animator and comics artist. He was born in Ostend, Belgium, and is a fundamental figure of the Belgian animation scene, as well as the founder of the animation faculty of the ...
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Frits Van den Berghe
Frits Van den Berghe (3 April 1883 – 23 September 1939) was a Belgian Expressionism, expressionist and Surrealism, surrealist Painting, painter and illustrator.
Biography
He was born in Ghent, where his father was the Librarian at the Univers ...
Dirk Braeckman
Dirk Braeckman (born 1958 in Eeklo, Belgium) is a Belgian photographer who lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. The artist studied photography and film at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent from 1977 until 1981.
Photography career
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Joseph-Pierre Braemt
Joseph-Pierre Braemt (15 June 1796 – 2 December 1864) was a Belgian medalist and coin designer.
Biography
After training at the academies of Ghent and then Brussels, Joseph-Pierre Braemt perfected his craft in Paris with the engraver Andr ...
(1796–1864)
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Omer Coppens
Omer Coppens (1864–1926) was a Belgian impressionist and orientalist painter, ceramic artist, and bookbinder.
Born in Dunkirk, Coppens studied art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at Ghent and worked in the south of France, Italy, and Morocco ...
(1864–1926), impressionist
* Walter De Buck (1934–2014)
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Jan De Cock
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Gustave De Smet
Gustave Franciscus De Smet (21 January 1877 – 8 October 1943) was a Belgian painter. Together with Constant Permeke and Frits Van den Berghe, he was one of the founders of Flemish Expressionism. His younger brother, , also became a painter.
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(1877–1943)
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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 ...
(1867–1950)
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Gerda Dendooven
Gerda Dendooven (born 10 May 1962) is a Belgian illustrator. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Gouden Uil, the Woutertje Pieterse Prijs and the Boekenpauw on several occasions.
Early life
Dendooven was born in 1962 in ...
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Lukas Dhont
Lukas Dhont (; born 11 June 1991) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. His debut feature film, ''Girl'', premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or and the Queer Palm awards. He was featured in Forbes 30 ...
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Nick Ervinck
Nick Ervinck (born 1981) is a Belgian artist.
Biography
Ervinck was born in 1981, in Kortemark. From the age of 15, he studied at the Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Bruges and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent.
Work
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Mous Lamrabat
Moustapha "Mous" Lamrabat (born 1983) is a Moroccan-born Belgian photographer, of Moroccan descent, identifying als Flemish-Moroccan. He is known for both fashion photography under Studio Mousmous, and fine art photography.
Biography
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(born 1983) Moroccan-born Belgian photographer
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Frans Masereel
Frans Masereel (31 July 1889 – 3 January 1972) was a Belgium, Belgian painter and graphic artist who worked mainly in France. He is known especially for his woodcuts which focused on political and social issues, such as war and capitalism. He ...
(1889–1972)
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George Minne
George (Georges) Minne (born ''Georgius Joannes Leonardus Minne''; 30 August 1866 – 18 February 1941) was a Belgians, Belgian artist and sculptor famous for his idealized depictions of man's inner spiritual conflicts, including the "Kneeling ...
(1866–1941)
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Constant Montald
Constant Montald (4 December 18625 March 1944) was a Belgian painter, muralist, and teacher.
Biography Early years
Montald was born in 1862 in Ghent. In 1874, while receiving an education in decorative painting at the technical school of Ghent ...
(1862–1944)
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Joseph Paelinck
Joseph Paelinck, (20 March 1781 – 19 June 1839) was a painter from the Southern Netherlands.
Biography
Paelinck attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Ghent) and then with Jacques-Louis David in Paris, where he painted in 1804 ''A Judgment ...
(1781–1839)
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Constant Permeke
Constant Permeke (; 31 July 1886 – 4 January 1952) was a Belgian painter and sculptor who is considered the leading figure of Flemish Expressionism.
Biography
Permeke was born in Antwerp but when he was six years old the family moved to Ost ...
(1886–1952)
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Max Pinckers
Max Pinckers (born 1988) is a Belgian photographer based in Brussels.
He has self-published the books ''The Fourth Wall'' (2012); ''Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty'' (2014), which won a Photographic Museum of Humanity grant); an ...
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Raoul Servais
Raoul Servais (1 May 1928 – 17 March 2023) was a Belgian filmmaker, animator and comics artist. He was born in Ostend, Belgium, and is a fundamental figure of the Belgian animation scene, as well as the founder of the animation faculty of the ...
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Gustave Van de Woestyne
Gustave Van de Woestijne (; 2 August 1881 – 21 April 1947) was a Belgium, Belgian expressionism, expressionist Painting, painter.
He belonged to the so-called "First Group of Latem", a group of artists who worked in the rural village of S ...
(1881–1947)
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Frits Van den Berghe
Frits Van den Berghe (3 April 1883 – 23 September 1939) was a Belgian Expressionism, expressionist and Surrealism, surrealist Painting, painter and illustrator.
Biography
He was born in Ghent, where his father was the Librarian at the Univers ...