STUYVAERT, VICTOR (1897-1974)

“Beauty In Profile” (1942)
pencil
cm
Signed lower right
*private collection, Sydney
 
 Stuyvaert was a prominent Belgian Art Deco graphic designer, illustrator & printmaker. He studied at the Ghent Academy until 1922. Not much later, in 1924, he became an art teacher at the atheneum in the city and in 1931 at the Lyceum. From 1940 to 1957 he returned to the Academy of Ghent, now as a teacher. Among the students in his own graphic studio was Gerard Gaudaen. Stuyvaert was a member of La Gravure Originale Belge. Stuyvaert's work was awarded the Prize for small graphics in West Flanders in 1919 and an Honorary Prize in 1935 during the World Exhibition in Brussels. He was best known for his wood carvings, but was also active as an illustrator, watercolorist and etcher. More than two hundred ex-libris and ex-musicians have been published by him. He also provided illustrations for more than 100 literary works, including La Reine Morte, Paradise Lost and Don Quixote. Stuyvaert's work can be found in prominent museums and print rooms, such as the Arnold Vander Haeghen Museum in Ghent, where a cabinet is named after him and many of his work can be viewed. He also designed the shield of the Flemish Economic Circle (VEK) in Ghent.