Rik Wouters (Belgian, 1882 - 191)
Red begonias in the window (Rode begonia’s aan het venster), 1912
Oil on canvas
Welcoming the Morning Light…Hendrik Emil Wouters was a Belgian fauvist painter and sculptor. From early age on Rik Wouters worked as an apprentice in the studio of his father, an ornamental sculptor. In his workshop he created wooden figures and decorations for furniture. At the young age of fifteen, Wouters entered the Akademie van Schone Kunsten in Mechelen to study sculpture, then in 1900 he went to the.at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels where he became a pupil of Charles Van der Stappen at the Academie des Beaux-Arts. Read more about his short but beautiful artist life at http://www.belart.org/artists/wouters/wouters.html
