Henri Victor Wolvens (1896-1977) - Nature morte aux fruits

Oil on paper, excellent condition
Framed 43 x 66 cm

Henri Victor Wolvens is a Belgian artist born in 1896 in Brussels and who died in 1977 in Bruges. His artist's name was a pseudonym for Wolvenspergens, Henri Victor. He was a painter, graphic artist and draughtsman. Trained at the Academy of Sint-Joost-ten-Noode with H. Ottevaere, spent two years sculpting at the Academy of Saint-Gilles, worked in 1921-1922 in the Labor studio in Ixelles and Uccle. First solo exhibition at Galerie G. Giroux in Brussels in 1925. Trip 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.