Edgard TYTGAT (1879 - Brussels - 1957 - Brussels)
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Edgard Tytgat was a Belgian painter, watercolourist and etcher of genre and mythological scenes, figures, interiors, landscapes and portraits. He received his artistic training at the Academy of Brussels under the tutorship of Constant Montald in 1900. He started off painting in the Impressionist style under the influence of the befriended renowned Belgian painter Rik Wouters. Gradually he evolved from the Brabant Fauvism towards a rather naieve Expressionist style. During the First World War he left for England and worked alot on illustrative works. Tytgat came back to Brussels in 1920 and started developping his style towards a very personal painter story teller, similar to the intimist style of the French renowned painter Pierre Bonnard. Daily life scenery, circusses, village fairs, folkore and common tales are dominating his oeuvre. After 1940, his palette became brighter and his technique more loose. His inspiration shifts more towards religious and heroic tragedies. Tytgat became a dominant painter of the naieve school due to the themes he used, as well as the technical looseness and simplicity of his oeuvre. He was a member of numerous artistic groups such as "Kunst van Heden" in 1923, 'The IX", "Le Centaure" as well as "Sélection". Many retrospectives were held in his honour of which the most important ones in Brussels in 1931 and 1951, in Ghent in 1971 and 1995, in Holland in 1951 and 1971 and also in Antwerp in 1996.
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