Anna Boch - Artist Info

About Anna Boch

  • Biography

    Anna Rosalie Boch (10 February 1848 – 25 February 1936) was a Belgian painter, born in Saint-Vaast, Hainaut. Anna Boch died in Ixelles in 1936 and is interred there in the Ixelles Cemetery, Brussels, Belgium.
    She participated in the Neo-Impressionist movement.

    Her early works used a Pointillist technique, but she is best known for her Impressionist style which she adopted for most of her career. A pupil of Isidore Verheyden, she was influenced by Théo van Rysselberghe whom she met in the Groupe des XX.

    Besides her own paintings, Boch held one of the most important collections of impressionist paintings of her time. She promoted many young artists including Vincent van Gogh whom she admired for his talent and who was a frie...

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