Michel Thomas Antonius Van Cuyck (19 August 1797, Ostend - 10 May 1875, Ostend) was a Belgian painter, watercolorist and lithographer.
From 1811 to 1817, he studied at the Bruges Academy of Fine Arts . After graduating, he set up a studio in Oostende, but was forced to supplement his income by painting houses. In 1820, he and François-Antoine Bossuet co-founded the "School voor Teeken- en Bouwkunde" (School for drawing and architecture). They had several students who became well known, including Edgar Baes , Lionel Baes , François Musin and, especially, James Ensor. The latter, however, was not impressed by what he described as the "deceptive sponge and drawing technique of this dull, boring and stillborn business".
In 1827, a blue whale washed up on the beach near Ostend. Van Cuyck made a series of paintings, depicting it on the beach, and drawings of the dissection process, which accompanied an exhibition of the whale's skeleton. It was purchased by a local philanthropist named Herman Kessels who toured with it and Van Cuyck's drawings for almost four decades. Since 1865, it has been on display at the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.
During the years following independence, King Leopold I transformed Oostende into a sort of Royal Residence, which developed into a fashionable seaside resort. Van Cuyck was one of the first to depict the tourism and the bathing culture there. His beach scenes and seascapes are now some of his most familiar works. He also painted Flemish fairs and landscapes, primarily in Walloon Brabant, in Biedermeier style. His portrayal of Queen Louise on her deathbed was reproduced as a lithograph.
He was the first in a long line of painters, which included his sons, Edouard-Johannes Van Cuyck (1828-1893) and Michel Thomas Séraphin Van Cuyck (1822-1890), as well as his grandsons, Michel-Julien Van Cuyck (1861-1930), Octavius-Ludovicus Van Cuyck [nl] (1870-1956) and Paul-Edouard-Alphonse Van Cuyck (1882-?).
Ze wil me liever haar naam niet verklappen, maar we staan uiteindelijk wel een tijdje te praten. X is op weg van Oostende naar Brasschaat.
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Ze wil me liever haar naam niet verklappen, maar we staan uiteindelijk wel een tijdje te praten. X is op weg van Oostende naar Brasschaat. Dat doet ze om de twee weken op woensdag om op de kleinkinderen te passen. Dat zijn wel heel drukke namiddagen vertelt ze. Ze moeten dan van de sportclub, naar de academie, … Het is een drukte van jewelste. X komt met de plooifiets, de trein en de bus. Ze deed…
ANNO 2020 , ooit is 1820 stond de academie van Oostende in haar kinderschoenen.
De jongste generatie leerkrachten van KAZ / kunstenaars vieren het 200 jaar bestaan van Kunstacademie Aan Zee. Dit feest gaat door in CAS -contemporary art space https://www.google.com/maps/search/Oostende+,Frans+Musinstraat+19?entry=gmail&source=g
19 kunstenaars nemen deel aan dit feest. Je zult ontdekken hoe zij een pluk nemen uit hun oeuvre of een nieuw werk creëren. Heel wat kunstenaars van hen hebben een eigen portfolio aan tentoonstellingen opbouwd. Het is de academie die hen verbindt en de tijd die deze tentoonstelling vorm geeft.
We pakken uit met heel veel diversiteit. Vormgeven aan tijd, is iets wat iedereen op zijn eigen manier doet, met zijn eigen inhoud, vormgeving en medium. Voor sommigen is dat feest, voor anderen is dat evolutie, .... kom het gewoon zelf ontdekken.
Dan krijg je de werken te zien in het prachtige kunsthuis van Nadine en Marc,
Dag van de academies in Oostende #dagvandeacademies #oostende#gekkekapsels #gekkeharen #poëtischkapsalon #kipvantroje #kunstacademieaanzee (bij Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuOcrUHAuLm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xo05tj3djdki
Belgian club KV Oostende confident in new signing David Atanga
[caption id="attachment_949748" align="alignnone" width="1180"] David Atanga[/caption]KV Oostende president Gauthier Ganaye has expressed absolute confidence in the club's new signing David Atanga.The Belgian side acquired the services of the Ghanaian attacker on a three-year deal from German club Holstein Kiel.David went through training in the Red Bull group and therefore fits perfectly into our system, he said.He is used to playing Gegenpressing and with his speed, he can be a scourge to any defence.Im confident well see the best of David soon. Our homework is almost done, except for maybe one or two positions.Atanga started pre-season training with Holstein Kiel after returning from a loan spell with Wacker. He made 15 appearances and scored two goals with three assists.It was his second loan as the previous season, he featured for the Austrian side.Atanga trained in the Red Bull group, where he started in the local youth academy in his home country of Ghana, before joining the Austrian FC Liefering.He graduated from Liefering's sister club RB Salzburg in 2017 and parted ways with them in 2019.
source: https://ghanasoccernet.com/