Education
From 1880 to 1886, he attended painting courses at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
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Frans Geerts
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Little is known about the life of Frans Geerts. Taught by renowned still life painter Lucas Victor Schaefels, he excelled in his class, winning the contest “ornement au trait d’après l’estampe” in 1884. The last months of his painters’ education coincided with the short and unsuccessful attendance of Vincent Van Gogh at the Antwerp Academy.
Number records have been found of Geerts’ activity in the decade after his education.
He may have received additional training abroad or perfected his art in another artist’s workshop. From the end of the 19th century until the end of the second World War, he lived and worked as an artist in Borgerhout, Antwerp, where he died in 1957.
Geerts also painted a detailed copy of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Peasant Dance. Geerts was no avant-garde artist and never played a prominent role in Antwerp’s artistic scene.
Nevertheless, he seems to have had a certain commercial success.
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Belgium