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Anna De Weert

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Anna De Weert
Born27 May 1867
Died12 May 1950 (1950-05-13) (aged 82)
NationalityBelgium
Known forPainting
Political partyLiberal
SpouseMaurice De Weert [nl]

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 [nl] 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

  1. ^ a b Anna De Weert, Francis Maere Fine Arts, Retrieved 1 May 2017
  2. ^ Portrait of Anna De Weert Archived 2017-05-01 at the Wayback Machine, Emile Claus, LukasWeb, Retrieved 1 May 2017
  3. ^ De Weert at RKD