Albijn Van den Abeele was from 1863 to 1909 town clerk and for a short time also mayor of Sint-Martens-Latem, the village where various artists such as Valerius De Saedeleer and Gustave Van de Woestyne came to live around 1899. Van den Abeele was an amateur painter and the spiritual atmosphere of the painters’ colony is expressed in some of his work. Coppice at Sint-Martens-Latem is a good example of the unpretentious and poetic nature of his art. It is one of a series of woodland scenes in which he depicts the seclusion of the wood. Through his highly personal, sensitive approach to nature, Van den Abeele’s seemingly realistic landscapes acquire an almost symbolic character.
| Artist |
Albijn Van den Abeele
RKD
Wikidata
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| Title | Coppice at Sint-Martens-Latem |
| Date | ca. 1898 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Location | Sint-Martens-Latem TGN |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom right: Albijn van den Abeele. |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1981-G |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Bevernaege, J. (coll.) Ghent 1981 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1981-G |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3247/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
22C8
shadow
Iconclass
25G3 trees Iconclass 25G31 shrubs Iconclass 25H15 forest, wood Iconclass 25H153 bush, shrubs ~ forest Iconclass 26A clouds Iconclass 46A222 rural life Iconclass 61D(BELGIUM) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (BELGIUM) Iconclass 61E(LAETHEM-SAINT-MARTIN) names of cities and villages (LAETHEM-SAINT-MARTIN) Iconclass |
| School / Style |
Sint-Martens-Latem
realism (artistic form of expression) AAT |
| Albijn van den Abeele : de stamvader van de Latemse kunstenaars ; met geïllustreerde oeuvrecatalogus / Raf Van Den Abeele, Dieter Lampens. - Gent : Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1993 ; Bruxelles : Gemeentekrediet, 1993 (p. 119-120) |
| 200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. 267 (ill. 149)) |
| 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. 44-45 (ill.)) |
| Het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : een keuze uit de mooiste werken / Patrick De Rynck. - Gent : Ludion, 2007 (p. 102 (ill.)) |
| Belgische schone : Ensor tot Magritte ; Hoogtepunten uit de verzameling van het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (tentoonstelling Laren, Singer Laren, 16.06 - 30.08.2015) / Johan De Smet, Jan Rudolph De Lorm. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2015 ; Laren : Singer Laren, 2015 ; Heule : Uitgeverij Snoeck, 2015 (cat. 29 (ill.)) |
| Nervia / Sint-Martens-Latem : Koppelteken = Nervia / Laethem-Saint-Martin : Traits d'union (tentoonstelling Elsene (Brussel), Museum van Elsene, 22.10.2015 - 17.01.2016) / Françoise Eeckman, Cathérine Verleysen, Michel De Reymaeker, Françoise Osteaux. - Bruxelles : Editions Racine, 2015 (p. 109) |
| Fantastisch real : Belgische Moderne von Ensor bis Magritte (Ausstellung München, Kunsthalle, 01.10.2021 - 06.03.2022) / Roger Diederen, Nerina Santorius, Herwig Todts, Cathérine Verleysen, Peter J.H. Pauwels. - München : Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung (München), 2021 (p. 144 (ill. 3)) |
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