Henri Victor Wolvens (1896-1977) - Train arrivant à la gare

Oil on paper, excellent condition
Encadré 48 x 77cm

Henri Victor Wolvens is a Belgian artist born in 1896 in Brussels and died in 1977 in Bruges. His artist's name was a pseudonym for Wolvenspergens, Henri Victor. He was a painter, graphic designer and draftsman. Trained at the Académie de Saint-Josse-ten-Noode with H. Ottevaere, for two years of sculpture at the Académie de Saint-Gilles, he worked in 1921-1922 in the Labor studio in Ixelles and Uccle. First solo exhibition at the G. Giroux gallery in Brussels in 1925. Travel to Prague in 1929-1931 and worked in France, in the Ardennes (Houffalize) and on the Belgian coast. After his marriage in 1930, he settled permanently in Bruges. Expressionist and animist