Andreas Vanpoucke

Who is Andreas Vanpoucke?

Andreas Vanpoucke is a Belgian painter and etcher.

Born at Dixmude, Belgium, he was educated at Ghent from 1975 to 1982 at the Ecole Superieure Saint-Luc. He did a personal research on engravings, drawings and oil paintings by Rembrandt, Degas and Ensor as well as figurative painting of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

He was offered a professorship at the Graduate School St. Lukas, Karel de Grote Hogeschool in Antwerp, Belgium, where he entered in 1983. He is Professor of Fine Arts in drawing and painting. Between 1975 and 1999, he produced numerous art calendars at the request of the cultural organizations in cities such as Blankenberge, Koksijde, Handzame, Bruges, Saint Remy de Provence, etc. He has been painting since his childhood, mainly oil, but he also produced numerous drawings, watercolors and etchings. Back from his travels in Portugal, he discovered France and Provence and decided to settle in 1997 in Saint Rémy de Provence. His first solo exhibition there, entitled "Saint Rémy daily", held in 1999 at the Zero Hang'Art galery of the Surreal painter François Otte. Since then, the mayor of Saint Remy de Provence continually exposes the main triptych from this series and Princess Caroline of Hanover has five paintings by Andreas Vanpoucke in her private collection. He creates a series of large oil paintings around " Les Calanques " and "Les Baux de Provence" From 2006 he focused his work on the city of Antwerp and its inhabitants. In 2007 he exhibited "The Mosaic of Antwerp", with over two hundred 30×40 cm acrylics and has a multi-faceted face of metropolis. In May 2010 he was invited by the village of Barbizon to participate at the international exposition " l'Angelus de Millet 150 years " In 2010 and 2011 he showed his "wall of tenderness" on Leila Voight's first and second international festival of contemporary art APart in Saint-Rémy de Provence.