Anna Boch

Anna Rosalie Boch ( born February 10, 1848 in Saint- Vaast (La Louviere ), † February 25, 1936 in Ixelles in Brussels) was a Belgian painter and patron of the arts.

Life

Anna Boch was the eldest daughter of Victor Boch earthenware manufacturer ( Villeroy & Boch ) and the older sister of the famous painter Eugène Boch ( 1855-1941 ).

Your first drawing lessons she received from the painter Isidore Verheyden, who advised her strongly to continue his studies in Paris. Accompanied by mother Bloch went to Paris in 1868 to educate yourself at Tony Robert -Fleury at the prestigious Académie Julian in Paris. At the Académie, the young artist moved by their great talent for drawing the attention of their teachers in coming. Around 1885 she met the painter Théo van Rysselberghe know. He was a founding member of the 'Group of XX' ( Groupe des XX), a group of avant-garde artists, which promotes artistic exchange between France and Belgium.

Anna Boch has created works in an impressionistic, sometimes also in Neo-Impressionist manner, maintained good relations with the Brussels artist group " Les Vingts " and bought in 1890 at the exhibition of this association, in which they themselves and Eugène were represented, a painted in Arles image of van Gogh, the "Red vineyard ". Presumably they did so on the recommendation of her brother, who may want material and moral help the meantime sufferers. The secretary of the " Vingts ," Octave Maus, was a cousin of the siblings Boch. For Paul Gauguin organized Boch 1890 a charity event. Anna Boch resulted in Ixelles an open house for progressive artists and had next two images of Vincent van Gogh - because in 1891 she earned a second - they sold again in 1907, paintings by Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac and James Ensor, the frequented her salon.

Works (selection)

Falaise - Côte de Bretagne, oil on canvas, 1900/1902

La Louvriere, oil on canvas, 1910