Frans claerhout biography
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SA Artist, Father Frans Claerhout, is born
Father Frans Claerhout, acclaimed artist, priest and humanitarian was born on this day in Pittem, western Belgium. After completing his studies, he immigrated to South Africa in as a Catholic missionary. He was initially posted to the Orange Free State, where he worked among the black people living in and around Bloemfontein. He served primarily in Bloemfontein, Thabanchu and his beloved Tweespruit mission station. Although Claerhout did not receive formal instruction in painting, his charming style appealed to art lovers and investors alike and he held his first solo exhibition in Johannesburg in His artworks - characterised by their warm colours, thick impasto paint, exaggerated forms, humour and compassion - were exhibited widely in South Africa, as well as in Belgium, Canada, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom. His subject matter consisted of people and animals that he encountered in his daily life. His donkey depi
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Frans Claerhout
South African
Beautiful Little Girl. Oil on Board, 51cm x 24cm excluding frame, 68cm x 41cm including frame. Framed.
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Frans Claerhout ( &#; )
Frans was born in Pittem, West Flanders in , and moved to South Africa as a missionary for the Catholic Church in , at the age of He stayed on a farm near Bloemfontein in the Free State province of South Africa. He worked as a priest and in his spare time he concentrated on his art.
He started painting more after relocating to Thaba Nchu in , and became famous for his unique style, which used vivid colours and incorporated items such as donkeys, sunflowers and figures of people he met through his everyday life.
Examples of his work, characterised by their warm colours, thick impasto paint, exaggerated forms, humour and compassion were exhibited widely in South Africa, as well as in Be
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Frans Claerhout
Belgian painter (–)
Frans Claerhout (15 February – 4 July ) was a Belgian painter who spent most of his adult life in South Africa.
Biography
[edit]Claerhout was born in Pittem, West Flanders in , and moved to South Africa as a missionary for the Catholic Church in , at the age of He moved after completing his training for the priesthood. His first post was in the Transvaal but in he was transferred to the Orange Free State.[1] He stayed on a farm near Bloemfontein in the Free State province of South Africa. He worked as a priest and in his spare time he concentrated on his art.[2]
Claerhout was a self-taught painter who created landscapes and figures in oil paint. He started painting more after relocating to Thaba Nchu in , and became famous for his unique style, which used levande colors and incorporated items such as donkeys, sunflowers and figures of people he met through his everyday life. His work was inspired by Christian spiritua