Adolphe Wansart (1873, Verviers - 1954, Uccle).

Vintage wooden frame. Frame dimensions: 68 x 68 cm.
Dimensions of the painting: 61 x 61 cm. Signed and dated 16 lower right.
On the back of the painting: Chapel of Stalle Notre Dame des Infligés. 1916.
Adolphe Wansart, born in 1873 in Verviers and died in 1954 in Brussels, is a Belgian painter and sculptor.
A talented portrait painter, this Verviétois is an artist who has devoted his career to both sculpture and painting.
Trained in drawing at the Academies of Verviers and Liège, before taking painting lessons at the Brussels Academy with J.Portaels (1889-1993), married to the painter Lucie De Smet, he settled in the capital Belgium (Uccle), where he first distinguished himself with his fauvist paintings with simple lines and bright colors.
The artist frequented the Salons and established himself there as an “important representative of the modernist school”. Requested on international projects (exhibitions in Paris in 1925, Brussels in 1935, Paris in 1937 and Liège in 1939), he also responds to private or official commissions.
Works at the Museum of Liège.
Bibliography: Serge Goyens de Heusch, Impressionism and Fauvism in Belgium, Antwerp/Paris, Fonds Mercator/Albin Michel, 1988