{"id":4396,"date":"2025-10-09T15:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/en\/?page_id=4396"},"modified":"2025-10-09T15:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:37:41","slug":"belgian-women-artists-1880-1920","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/en\/belgian-women-artists-1880-1920\/","title":{"rendered":"BELGIAN WOMEN ARTISTS 1880 -1920"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\r\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4396\" data-postid=\"4396\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4396 themify_builder tf_clear\">\r\n    \t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\r\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row wc subrow-no-btm-mrg tb_dy3m407 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\r\n\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\r\n\t\t            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-1 tb_28fv064 first\">\r\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\r\n                        <!-- module image -->\r\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_nvve046   image-top tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\r\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\r\n\t\t    \t\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<!-- \/image-wrap -->\r\n    \r\n    \t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module text -->\r\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_pgpu700   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\r\n    <h3 class=\"module-title\">BELGIAN WOMEN ARTISTS 1880 -1920<\/h3>    <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\r\n    <p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brussels becomes a modern metropolis in 1880. This is due to the very rapid and important industrialisation of Belgium and the urban plans of King Leopold II. A rich new cosmopolitan elite starts patronizing an avant-garde art. Brussels becomes the capital of Art Nouveau. Many new artistic currents in plastic arts develop. Although it is very difficult for women to pursue an artistic career as a painter, a small number of women artists nevertheless manages to develop their talent and to become professional painters. We present ten of them: Berthe Art, Henriette Ronner-Knip, Louise De Hem, C\u00e9cile Douard, Alix d\u2019An\u00e9than, Virginie Demont-Breton, Juliette Wytsman, Anna Boch, Marguerite Verboeckhoven and Anna De Weert. 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Although it is very difficult for women to pursue an artistic career as a painter, a small number of women artists nevertheless manages to develop their talent and to become professional painters. We present ten of them: Berthe Art, Henriette Ronner-Knip, Louise De Hem, C\u00e9cile Douard, Alix d\u2019An\u00e9than, Virginie Demont-Breton, Juliette Wytsman, Anna Boch, Marguerite Verboeckhoven and Anna De Weert. Their styles and subjects are very varied and reflect their condition feminine in that era.<\/p>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-1-178x288.jpg\" width=\"178\" height=\"288\" title=\"1\" alt=\"1\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-190x288.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"288\" title=\"2\" alt=\"2\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3-379x287.jpg\" width=\"379\" height=\"287\" title=\"3\" alt=\"3\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3-379x287.jpg 379w, https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4-313x334.jpg\" width=\"313\" height=\"334\" title=\"4\" alt=\"4\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-185x336.jpg\" width=\"185\" height=\"336\" title=\"5\" alt=\"5\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6-249x336.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"336\" title=\"6\" alt=\"6\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/fr\/contact\">Contactez-moi<\/a> pour plus d'informations.<\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4398,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4396\/revisions\/4398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}