Lively Countryside Landscape, Oil On Canvas Signed By Adolphe Keller (1880-1968) Impressionism

Lively countryside landscape. Oil on canvas, signed in the lower right corner, mounted in a gilded wooden frame.

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Post-Impressionist painter of genre and still lifes with flowers, but especially landscapes. Student at the Academies of Brussels and Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (P. Braeke and H. Ottevaere). Uses impressionist tones, applied with a vigorous brush and a generous paste. Establishes his studio in Nieuwpoort at the beginning of the century, a studio that will be destroyed during the First World War. Then leaves the North Sea and settles in the South, in Saint-Tropez, where he remains until the outbreak of the Second World War. Returns to Belgium and chooses a studio at the Rouge-Cloître in Auderghem. Loves this site and becomes a canker of the Sonian Forest. President of the Alfred Bastien Circle (Auderghem). Retrospectives in 1974 and 1980 at the Auderghem Cultural Centre. The works brought back from the South, less well-known in Belgium than the following ones, were exhibited for the first time at the Rouge-Cloître Art Centre in 1989. Works in the possession of the municipality of Auderghem and at the Ixelles Museum.