Franz Courtens (1854-1943) - Schapenstal

Beautiful oil on a wooden panel by the Belgian painter Franz Courtens (1854-1943).
Subject: Sheep shed.
Signed.
Dated (19)01.
Framed.
Dimensions
With frame 50 x 43 cm
Without frame 35 x 29 cm

The painter is listed in “The Belgian Visual Artists from the 19th to the 21st Century” by Paul Piron.
Franz Courtens was a Belgian artist born in Dendermonde in 1854 and died in Sint-Joost-ten-Node/Brussels in 1943.
Painter.
He trained at the Academy of Dendermonde under J. Rosseels and Is. Meyers, and he also took evening classes at the free studio “Patte de Dindon” in Brussels.
Lived from 1878 to 1881 in Zeeland.
From 1882, together with G. Vogels and Isidore Verheyden, he painted mainly Brabant and Dutch landscapes.
Throughout his career he remained faithful to the realistic landscape with impressionistic touches, but he also painted rural scenes with figures or cattle, seascapes, figures, portraits. His body of work illustrates native impressionism, which was more naturalistic and materialistic in orientation than French impressionism.
Settled definitively in Brussels in 1900.
In 1903 he became a teacher at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerp.
His work is among those held by the Museums in Brussels, Antwerp, Tournai, Kortrijk and Liège.
He is listed in the “Biographie Nationale” of the Royal Academy of Belgium, part XXXV.