Like his friend Frits Van den Berghe, Gustave De Smet fled to the Netherlands at the outbreak of WWI. Until 1920 he lived in Laren and then Blaricum in Het Gooi, east of Amsterdam. During the last two years in the Netherlands De Smet regularly visited Amsterdam, where he rented an attic to use as a studio. Here he painted mainly female figures and still-lifes, as well as cityscapes viewed from his attic window. It was here that he painted Church with the Green Dome in Amsterdam, one of the most mature expressionistic works from this period. The dynamic interpretation of the townscape shows a strong affinity with German Expressionism and French Cubism. During his Dutch period Gustave De Smet rarely used bright colours. Instead he expressed himself in a harmony of warm autumn tones and black, applying the paint thickly in broad brush strokes.
| Artist |
Gustave De Smet
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| Title | The Church with the Green Dome in Amsterdam |
| Date | ca. 1919 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Location | Amsterdam TGN |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom right: Gust. De Smet |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1981-E |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Galerij De Vuyst Lokeren 1981 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1981-E |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3246/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300015571
cityscapes (representations)
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300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11Q712
church (exterior)
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21D water (one of the four elements) Iconclass 22C light Iconclass 22C1 natural light Iconclass 22C8 shadow Iconclass 24A sun as celestial body Iconclass 24A8 sunlight Iconclass 25F3 birds Iconclass 25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass 25H2 landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) Iconclass 25H22 canal Iconclass 26A clouds Iconclass 31A277 movement in water Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31D11222 girl (child between toddler and youth) Iconclass 31D130 Maidenhood Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 41A housing Iconclass 41A1 civic architecture; edifices; dwellings Iconclass 41A14 urban housing Iconclass 46C123 hand-cart Iconclass 46C2231 pier, quay, wharf Iconclass 46C23 boat propelled by man or animal Iconclass 46C24 sailing-ship, sailing-boat Iconclass 61D(NETHERLANDS) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (NETHERLANDS) Iconclass 61E(AMSTERDAM) names of cities and villages (AMSTERDAM) Iconclass 61F(KOEPELKERK) names of historical buildings, sites, streets, etc. (KOEPELKERK) Iconclass |
| School / Style |
Expressionist (style)
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Modernist AAT |
| Gust. De Smet : Kroniek - Kunsthistorische analyse ; De ontwikkeling van een Vlaams kunstenaar tussen 1891 en 1943 in relatie tot de nationale en internationale vernieuwing in de schilderkunst ; Met een beschrijvende, volledig geïllustreerde catalogus van zijn schilderijen, tekeningen en grafisch werk / Piet Boyens. - Antwerpen : Mercatorfonds, 1989 (p. 145-147, cat. 520 (ill.)) |
| 200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. 272 (ill. 161)) |
| D'Ensor à Magritte dans les collections du Musée de Gand (exposition Lodève, Musée de Lodève-Hôtel du Cardinal de Fleury, 19 novembre 2004 - 27 février 2005) / Maïthé Vallès-Bled, Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Helke Lauwaert, Bruno Fornari. - Lodève : Musée de Lodève, 2004 ; Milano : Mazzotta, 2004 (p. 201-203, cat. 53) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 33, 301 (ill.)) |
| Het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : een keuze uit de mooiste werken / Patrick De Rynck. - Gent : Ludion, 2007 (p. 109 (ill.)) |
| Antwerpen - Brugge - Gent : De musea en hun kunstschatten van Van Eyck tot Magritte ; ontdek het rijke erfgoed in drie Vlaamse steden ; de Vlaamse Kunstcollectie / Geert Souvereyns, Till-Holger Borchert, Paul Vandenbroeck. - Dijon : Éditions Faton, 2007 (p. 91-92 (ill.)) |
| Utopia 1900-1940 : Visions of a New World (exhibition Leiden, Museum De Lakenhal, 22.09.2013 - 05.01.2014) / Doris Wintgens Hötte, Gregor Langfeld, Christina Lodder, Judit Bozsan. - Leiden : Museum de Lakenhal, 2013 |
| The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context / Isabel Wünsche, András Zwickl, Torben Jelsbak, Cathérine Verleysen, Marko Jenko, Maria Frick. - New York City : Routledge, 2019 (p. 320 (ill. 16.2)) |
| onder vrienden : 225 jaar verzamelaars rond het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 25.11.2023 - 28.04.2024) / Johan De Smet, Frederica Van Dam, Willy Van der Gucht, Manfred Sellink. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2023 ; Gent : De Vrienden van het Museum, 2023 (p. 221, cat. 251 (ill.)) |
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