Van Daele

Painter, designer and engraver of figures, compositions and landscapes.

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Student at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels (1965-1969, L. Devos and C. Lyr):

• Fine-Art Painting (Oil Painting): Professors Leon DEVOS and Georgina ISERBYT; "Prix d'Excellence"(Price of Excellency), this is the biggest distinction obtained with 93 % of the points in 1968.

• Evening Class Drawing Course in 1969, with Professor Léon DEVOS (Nude): Medal of the Government.

• Etching Class of Professor Claude LYR. Big Distinction in 1969.

Tends towards Symbolisme.

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Creates namely realistic, but strange figures. The desolation and loneliness of the human occupies a principal place. Created "infographies" on the computer during the eighties. 

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Was first an assistant of C. Lyr, and later a professor at the Academy of Brussels and Ixelles.

Won multiple prizes:

• Medaille de la Ville de Bruxelles (Terminal diploma of Art Studies)

• Medal of the Government (Fine-Art Painting)

• "DE POTTER" (Drawing with charcoal).

• "PRIX DE LA COOPERATIVE ARTISTIQUE" (Painting).

• "CELESTIN JACQUET" (Watercolor).

• "DONNAY"(Landscape).

• Selected for the Prize "Guillaume CAMPO" in 1970.

• Selected for the International Painting Prize "Musée 2000" in the Grand-Duché of Luxembourg in 1971

• Selected for the International Arts Prize in Painting.

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Multiple paintings were bought by the Belgian State, Luxembourg and the city of Lissabon

Born: 1942 in Ghent (Belgium) / Lives in Beijing (China)