Felix De Boeck - Artist Info

About Felix De Boeck

  • Biography

    The autodidact and son of a farmer, Felix De Boeck has a unique artistic trajectory. Encouraged by Prosper De Troyer (1880 - 1961), beginning in 1917, De Boeck switches Post-Impressionism* for an expressive Fauvism* and Futurism*. During the final years of World War I, De Boeck exhibited in Brussels with the group Doe Stil Voort, where he met other young men such as Jozef Peeters and Victor Servranckx.

    In 1919, he came into contact with Pierre-Louis Flouquet (1900 - 1967) and the Bourgeois brothers. Pierre (1898 - 1976) was a writer and Victor Bourgeois (1897 - 1962) was an architect. De Boeck met the latter in the Brussels Centre d’Art, where he attended a presentation by Theo Van Doesburg (1883 - 1931) on the ...

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