Background

Hendrik Emil Wouters was born on August 21, 1882 in Mechelen, Belgium.

Education

Wouters was educated at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.

Career

From an early age on Rik Wouters worked as an apprentice in the workshop of his father, an ornamental sculptor. In his workshop he created wooden figures and decorations for furniture. Wouters visited Paris and Cologne, where he studied the paintings of Cezanne and Van Gogh and other impressionists. He worked in Belgium and Holland.

In Wouters’ paintings elements of Fauvism are combined with attention to man and his character, fluid, molded forms, and varying intensity of color and light. Wouters’ sculptures are characterized by their picturesqueness, impulsive style, and keen perception of moments of sudden movement or rest. In 1916 Rick Waters died at a young age of 33 years.

Achievements

• Rik was a prominent painter famous for his unique style.

Works

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  • Afternoon in Amsterdam

    1915

  • Autumn

    1913

  • Education

    1912

  • Lady in Blue in front of a Mirror

    1914

  • Man with Straw Hat

    1913

  • Portrait of a Lady

    1912

  • Portrait of Mrs. Giroux

    1913

  • Reading girl

    1915

  • Reading woman

    1913

  • Seated woman

    1915

  • Self-portrait with Black Bandage

    1915

  • Self-portrait with Cigar

    1914

  • Still Life

    1912

  • The flute player

    1914

  • Woman at the Window

    1915

  • Woman in Black Reading a Newspaper

    1912

  • Seated woman

    1915

  • Woman Ironing

    1912

  • Woman on the Bedside

    1912

Connections

Rik was married.

References

• Rik Wouters & Nederland: en Nederland