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LastDodo number
3516955
Area
Drawings / paintings
Title
The flight to Egypt
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Art Movement / style
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Theme
Material
Technique used
Colouring
Dimensions
140 x 120 cm
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Number
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Year
1974
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Flight to Egypt from 1974: 120 x 100 cm - including frame: 140 x 120 cm Oil on canvas. Biography Ludo Laagland Ludo Laagland (Paal, May 7, 1923 - Pellenberg, March 24, 2006) was a Belgian painter and poet. Biography Laagland studied at the Normal School in Maasmechelen from 1937, where he graduated in 1942 as a teacher. He also got to know the son of the painter Gaston Wallaert. Lowland has never been in education. Interest in painting became apparent at a fairly young age: "I must have been about ten to twelve years old when I contracted that infection, when I got that virus of drawing and painting in my blood", says the artist. At the Higher Institute in Antwerp he painted from a living model, but he can still be regarded as an autodidact. He was mainly inspired by nature. He also regularly visited Gaston Wallaert's studio in Hasselt and became acquainted with Brother Max in 1949. Painting became his profession. He remained faithful to his honest and simple figurative style, even though more and more artists ventured into the abstract or all kinds of experiments after the Second World War. In the 1950s, Laagland undertook various trips to, among others, Paris, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sicily and in 1958 to Yugoslavia and Greece with Staf Beerten. Besides landscapes, his work also includes portraits, still lifes, nudes, and religious subjects. Laagland made many portraits, often on commission, but always out of love for art, of Stijn Strereken, Ernest Claes, Walschap, Albert Servaes, Achiel van Acker and others. His religious works include several ways of the cross, Christ portraits, Kiss of Judas, Pieta, The Prodigal Son, and Flight to Egypt. He also designed stained-glass windows, among other things, for the chapel of the St. Ursula hospital in Herk-de-Stad. Laagland exhibited individually from 1944 and took part in various group exhibitions from 1953. For example, his work was shown in 1955 in Maastricht ("Art from Belgian Limburg") and in 1957 in Hasselt ("Post-war Art in Limburg"). His works are in private collections at home and abroad: Belgium, Germany, Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands, Greece, the United States, Austria, etc. Furthermore, his works have been purchased by the Belgian State and the Province of Limburg. Laagland also released several collections of poetry. His first collection Harpsichord was already published in 1945. A handful of verses followed three years later, and Bade Liekens appeared in the early 1950s. His fourth collection of poems De Regenboog was published in 1962 and In Gods grip appeared in 1988 with illustrations by the artist himself. His son Hans was born in 1965. In 1981 a monograph Ludo Laagland was published, a life story. In 1993, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, his work was exhibited in the Casino in Beringen. On the occasion of his 80th birthday he exhibited drawings and paintings together with his son Hans in Zichem. Lowland suffered a brain haemorrhage in 1996 and has been in a wheelchair ever since.

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