Gaston Bogaert

Gaston Bogaert ( born 1918 in Le Mans, † 2008 in Etterbeek ) was a Belgian, acting in the South of France of the painter technically imaginary expressionism and writer who has turned to the fantastic Surrealism in his art. Bogaert published next to his painting various philosophical essays.

Life and work

Gaston Bogaert was a trained architect who devoted himself since 1938 the interior decoration, stage design and commercial art. From 1965 he taught at the University of advertising art in Brussels. The painting was one of his passions since early youth. In a Brussels gallery, he showed his works in 1965 for the first time publicly. The success on the international art market turned quickly. He became known mainly through his imaginary landscapes, railway stations and facades, reminiscent of Paul Delvaux. The writer Owen Thomas (1910-2002) settled by Bogaerts images to the poem cycle " Les Maisons phantastiques " inspired.

Bogaerts paintings hang in numerous museums; in Brasilia, Charleroi, London, in Rockefeller Art Center in New York City, in the Victoria Art Gallery (Canada), in Tel Aviv, at the Museum of Modern Art in Sint -Martens- Latem and in various collections of the Belgian state.

Larger exhibitions were among others in Brussels, Sint -Martens- Latem, Knokke -Heist, Liege, Antwerp, Basel, Paris, Monte Carlo, Lille, Cannes, The Hague and Athens.