Guillaume Vogels - Artist Info

About Guillaume Vogels

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Vogels Guillaume
  • Biography

    Guillaume Vogels (9 June 1836, in Brussels – 9 January 1896, in Ixelles) was a Belgian Impressionist painter.

    He was the son of a laborer. After his primary education, he was apprenticed to the Bellis Brothers, a house painting and decoration firm, and received a master certificate in 1855. He later owned his own decorating company in Brussels. One of his employees there was the Greek painter Périclès Pantazis, who became his lifelong friend, introducing him to the works of Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet and showing him the techniques of painting with the palette knife.

    In 1870, Guillaume went to Paris, where he came under the influence of the Barbizon School*. His first exhibition was at Ghent in 1874, but his work wa...

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