Gustave Van de Woestyne greatly admired 15th-century Italian murals. After WWI he began to experiment with the fresco technique. The 1920 painting Hospitality to Strangers is a good example of this. It comes from ‘Rozenhuis’, Van de Woestyne’s house in Waregem (West-Flanders) where he lived from 1919 to 1926. He has painted himself inviting a stranger into his home. This fresco, inspired by Christian teachings, was probably based on the sufferings of the people after the war, which Van de Woestyne wrote about with great sympathy in his letters at the time. The work refers to the ‘works of mercy’ mentioned in the gospel of St. Matthew.
| Artist |
Gustave Van de Woestyne
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| Title | Hospitality to Strangers |
| Date | 1920 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Location | Waregem TGN |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature and year bottom left: GVE VAN DE WOESTYNE / 1920 |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | fresco AAT |
| Inventory number | 1969-C |
| Acquisition credit |
gift
De Zutter, Victor (coll.) Waregem 1969 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1969-C |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/2977/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300055865 symbolism (artistic concept) AAT |
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22C
light
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22C2 artificial light Iconclass 22C8 shadow Iconclass 25G3 trees Iconclass 25H114 low hill country Iconclass 26A clouds Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 41A16 rural housing, e.g. country-house, villa, cottage Iconclass 41AA161 country-house - AA - civic architecture: inside Iconclass 41D221(CAP) head-gear: cap Iconclass 41D222(SCARF) neck-gear ~ clothing (SCARF) Iconclass 45M5 fugitives Iconclass 45M51 fugitives 'en route' Iconclass 46A222 rural life Iconclass 46C5 travelling; tourism Iconclass 46C55 luggage, travel requisites Iconclass 47I213 sheep Iconclass 47I2133 lamb Iconclass 48C512 painter in non-work situation Iconclass 48C513 portrait, self-portrait of painter Iconclass 59A5 Hospitality; 'Hospitalita' (Ripa) Iconclass 61B2(VAN DE WOESTYNE, Gustave) historical person (VAN DE WOESTYNE, Gustave) Iconclass 61E(WAREGEM) names of cities and villages (WAREGEM) Iconclass |
| School / Style | Modernist AAT |
| 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. 367-368 (ill.)) |
| Kunstenaarsportretten (uit Antwerpen, Brugge en Gent : tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 26 mei - 19 augustus 2007) / Dorine Cardyn-Oomen, Nanny Schrijvers, Monique Tahon-Vanroose. - Gent : Vlaamse Kunstcollectie, 2007 (p. 61, nr. 63 (ill.)) |
| Gustave Van de Woestyne (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 27 maart - 27 juni 2010) / Robert Hoozee, Cathérine Verleysen, Piet Boyens, Marc Somers, Huguette Van de Woestyne-Vanagt. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2010 ; Brussel : Mercatorfonds, 2010 (nr. 80) |
| 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. 56 (ill. 78)) |
| 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. 136) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021 |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021 |
| Museum of Fine Arts Ghent : The Collection (exhibition opened on March 21th 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Ghent : Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2021 |
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