Gustave van de Woestyne was a remarkable painter. As one of the representatives of modern art in Belgium, he created stimulating body of work full of daring contradictions. The Fine Arts Museum in Ghent has selected 145 of his paintings, almost half of his oeuvre, to present an exceptional exhibition that not only offers you a complete chronological overview but also incorporates several works that have seldom been exhibited.

Van de Woestyne was the brother of the Flemish poet Karel van de Woestyne and belonged to the so-called First Group of Latem, artists who worked in the East Flemish village of Sint-Martens-Latem on the banks of the Leie, near Ghent. Most of his Flemish contemporaries evolved from Impressionism* towards a ...