Anna De Weert
Appearance
Anna De Weert | |
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Born | 27 May 1867 |
Died | 12 May 1950 | (aged 82)
Nationality | Belgium |
Known for | Painting |
Political party | Liberal |
Spouse | Maurice De Weert |
Anna De Weert, née Cogen; Anna Virginie Caroline De Weert (27 May 1867 – 12 May 1950) was a Belgian painter.
Life
Weert was born in Ghent as Anna Virginie Caroline Cogen. Her grandfather was Karel Lodewijk Ledeganck and her uncles, Alphons and Felix Cogen, were painters.[1]
In the 1890s she was a private (pro bono) student of the Belgian painter Emile Claus. She and her husband Maurice De Weert spent summers with him in the 1890s.[2]
Anna Cogen was a productive artist[3] and had a long association with the Cercle Artistique et Littéraire in her home town after she first exhibited there in 1895.[1] She died in Ghent in 1950.
References
- ^ a b Anna De Weert, Francis Maere Fine Arts, Retrieved 1 May 2017
- ^ Portrait of Anna De Weert Archived 2017-05-01 at the Wayback Machine, Emile Claus, LukasWeb, Retrieved 1 May 2017
- ^ De Weert at RKD