Juliette Wytsman (née Trullemans; 14 July 1866 – 8 March 1925) was a Belgian impressionist painter. She was married to painter Rodolphe Wytsman. Her paintings are in the collections of several museums in Belgium.
Juliette Wytsman | |
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Born | Juliette Trullemans 14 July 1866 |
Died | 8 March 1925 | (aged 58)
Nationality | Belgian |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Impressionism |
Spouse |
Wytsman was born as Juliette Trullemans on 14 July 1866 in Brussels in Belgium.[1]
She first studied under Henri Hendrickx at the Bischoffsheim Institute in Brussels. She later worked in the workshop of Jean CapeinickGhent, where she specialized in the painting of flowers.[1][2]
inAt Capeinick's workshop, she met painter Rodolphe Wytsman. He was a founding member of Les XX and introduced her to this circle of avant-garde artists. They married in 1886 and moved to Linkebeek, near Brussels, in 1892. During World War I, they fled Belgium and lived in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.[1][2]
Wytsman died on 8 March 1925, at the age of 58, in Ixelles in Belgium.[1]
Wytsman was an impressionist painter of landscapes and gardens.[2][3]
Wytsman exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[4]
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp,[5] the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels,[6] and the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent[7] have paintings of Wytsman in their collections.