Henri Logelain - Harbour view Antwerp

Beautiful charcoal on paper depicting a view of Antwerp,
With boats resting in the foreground and the Cathedral in the background.
Henri Logelain was a Belgian artist, born in Ixelles in 1889 and died in Ixelles in 1968. He was a painter, draftsman, watercolourist and graphic artist. He was educated at the Academy in Brussels and at the School for Decorative Arts in Ixelles. He worked in the Circle L'Effort, where Oleffe became his advisor and friend. He created portraits, figures, nudes, landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes, interiors and still lifes. He evolved towards a colourful Fauvist style, only to return to a more realistic design in the 1920s and use a more muted colour palette. In 1938 he stayed in the Belgian Congo. He was a teacher at the Academy in Leuven and at the School for Arts and Crafts in Vilvoorde. His work can be found in the Print Room in Brussels and in the Museums in Brussels, Ghent, Ixelles, Charleroi, Kortrijk, Namur and Ostend. Henri Logelain is mentioned in BAS I and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists. (Piron)