Willy KESSELS - Lot 280

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Willy KESSELS - Lot 280
Willy KESSELS Willy KESSELS (1898-1974) - Portrait of Joris Van Severen. 385 x 29O0 mm. Original photo. Black and white portrait of Joris Van Severen (1894-1940), founder of the Verdinaso, Flemish nationalist movement. Willy Kessels (1898-1974) "[ ... ] Close to the artistic avant-garde of the 20's (Marcel Baugniet, Victor Bourgeois, Henry Van de Velde ), he uses photography for his personal research since 1921. From 1931, he devoted himself completely to it [ ... ]. In 1932, he participated in the First International Photography Exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He exhibited there alongside Germaine Krull, André Kertesz, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray [ ... ]. A portrait painter until 1960, he also pursued research on the nude and created images with a non-figurative tendency: photograms, superimpositions [ ... ]. Biblio. Achiel C. Samoy, "Een levensschets Willy Kessel Kunstfotograaf" (1974). Ex: Répertoire des Photographes de 1839 à nos jours, (p. 419). In: "Pour une histoire de la photographie en Belgique, under the direction of G. Vercheval, Charleroi, Musée de la Photographie, 1993.
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