Anna De Weert
{{Short description | Belgian Luminist painter from Ghent, Anna De Weert}}
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| name = Anna De Weert
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| caption = by Emile Claus
| birth_name = Anna Cogen
| birth_date = 27 May 1867
| birth_place = Ghent, Belgium
| death_date = {{death-date and age|12 May 1950|27 May 1867}}
| death_place = Ghent, Belgium
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| known_for = Luminist painting
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| occupation = painter
| party = Liberal
| spouse = {{ill|Maurice De Weert|nl}}
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| nationality = Belgian
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Anna De Weert, née Cogen; Anna Virginie Caroline De Weert (27 May 1867, Ghent – 12 May 1950, Ghent) was a Belgian painter. She would paint in the Luminist style.
Life
Weert was born in Ghent as Anna Virginie Caroline Cogen. Her family were prosperous with a high regard for nature, art and in particular watercolours. Her grandfather was the writer Karel Lodewijk Ledeganck and her uncles, Alphons and Felix Cogen, were successful painters. Her father died when she was two so she grew up in the care of her extended family and in particular her mother and grandmother.[http://www.francismaerefinearts.be/artists/anna-de-weert Anna De Weert], Francis Maere Fine Arts, Retrieved 1 May 2017
Each summer she was taken to the family's home at Menton in the South of France. This summer holiday became an annual tradition all her life. She first formally studied art at the Academy of Ghent. In 1891 she married {{ill|Maurice De Weert|nl}}, who was a politician.
In the 1890s, she was a private (pro bono) student of the Belgian painter Emile Claus. She and her husband spent summers with him in the 1890s.[http://www.lukasweb.be/en/photo/portrait-of-anna-de-weert Portrait of Anna De Weert] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170501094754/http://www.lukasweb.be/en/photo/portrait-of-anna-de-weert |date=2017-05-01 }}, Emile Claus, LukasWeb, Retrieved 1 May 2017 In 1895, she acquired a new studio as she had bought a farm at Afsnee near Ghent, beside the river Lys, which had belonged to a Dominican Monastery.{{Cite web|title=My Studio in June, 1909-1910 {{!}} MSK Gent|url=https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/my-studio-june-1909-1910|access-date=2020-12-30|website=www.mskgent.be|language=en}}
Claus painted her in a river scene in 1899.{{Cite web|title=Portrait of the Artist Anna De Weert {{!}} MSK Gent|url=https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/portrait-artist-anna-de-weert|access-date=2020-12-30|website=www.mskgent.be|language=en}} She recorded what her own studio in Afsnee looked like in about 1909.
Anna Cogen was a productive artist[https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/21155 De Weert at RKD] and had a long association with the Cercle Artistique et Littéraire in her home town after she first exhibited there in 1895. From 1895 to 1937, she continued to participate in Belgian and European salons. She was invited to the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1907. Five of her works were sold in Zurich in 1908. When it was 1911, she had become one of the prominent artists from Belgium, representing at the International Exhibition of Women Artists in Turin. Her paintings primarily involved landscapes, interiors, and portraits. She was also part of the Vie et Lumière group; "Light, love, life" was the symbol of her life. In addition to her artistic work, she gave art lectures and wrote many articles. {{Cite journal |last=Van Ryssel |first=Daniël |date=2013-01-01 |title=Vergeten Gentse schrijvers (en kunstenaars): Anna De Weert-Cogen (Gent 1867 — Gent 1950) |url=https://doi.org/10.21825/gt.v42i1.8629 |journal=Ghendtsche Tydinghen |volume=42 |issue=1 |doi=10.21825/gt.v42i1.8629 |issn=1783-9033}}
Gallery
File:Tonnelle de rosiers (Anna De Weert).jpg|Tonnelle de rosiers
File:The poppies.jpg|The Poppies
File:Anna-de-Weert-My-Studio-in-June-1909-10.jpg|"My Studio" in 1909/10
File:Bloemen in de tuin - Anna De Weert - Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek mudel - 0613-WEE.a2.jpg|Flowers in the garden
File:Boomgaard aan atelier - Anna De Weert - Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek mudel - 1084-WEE.a4.jpg|Orchard next to studio
Death and legacy
She died in Ghent in 1950. In her will she left the painting of her to the museum in Ghent together with a work by George Minne and two old masters.
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Category:19th-century Belgian painters
Category:20th-century Belgian painters