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1755 Antwerp, Belgium - 1826 Antwerp, Belgium. Known for: Bucolic landscape painting.
Balthasar Paul Ommeganck appears in the register of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1767 as an apprentice of the landscape painter Henri-Joseph Antonissen (1737-94), who gave him a taste for... Read full biography
Balthasar Paul Ommeganck appears in the register of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1767 as an apprentice of the landscape painter Henri-Joseph Antonissen (1737-94), who gave him a taste for sketching from nature. His friendship with the landscape painter Simon Denis (1755-1813), who also attended... Read full biography
Balthasar Paul Ommeganck appears in the register of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1767 as an apprentice of the landscape painter Henri-Joseph Antonissen (1737-94), who gave him a taste for sketching from nature. His friendship with the landscape painter Simon Denis (1755-1813), who also attended Antonissen's studio, dates from this period. Ommeganck was a talented and highly successful artist who gave a new breadth and vigour to landscape painting in the Low Countries. He developed a new... Read full biography
Balthasar Paul Ommeganck appears in the register of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1767 as an apprentice of the landscape painter Henri-Joseph Antonissen (1737-94), who gave him a taste for sketching from nature. His friendship with the landscape painter Simon Denis (1755-1813), who also attended Antonissen's studio, dates from this period. Ommeganck was a talented and highly successful artist who gave a new breadth and vigour to landscape painting in the Low Countries. He developed a new expressive range combining the light found in the work of the Dutch Italianate painters of the 17th century with detailed observation of the hills and vales of the Ardennes. With great skill he resolved the conflict between an idealized view of nature... Read full biography
Balthasar Paul Ommeganck appears in the register of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1767 as an apprentice of the landscape painter Henri-Joseph Antonissen (1737-94), who gave him a taste for sketching from nature. His friendship with the landscape painter Simon Denis (1755-1813), who also attended Antonissen's studio, dates from this period. Ommeganck was a talented and highly successful artist who gave a new breadth and vigour to landscape painting in the Low Countries. He developed a new expressive range combining the light found in the work of the Dutch Italianate painters of the 17th century with detailed observation of the hills and vales of the Ardennes. With great skill he resolved the conflict between an idealized view of nature and his concern for realism. The original formula that Ommeganck invented was widely copied in the 18th century a... Read full biography