Louis Tytgadt

{{Short description|Belgian painter}}

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Louis Tytgadt or Tijtgadt{{cite web|url=https://rkd.nl/artists/78627|title=Tytgadt, Louis|website=RKD Research}} (1841–1918) was a Belgian painter.

Born in Lovendegem (East Flanders]) on 20 April 1841, Tytgadt studied at the Royal Academy for Fine Arts in Ghent, and in the Paris studio of Alexandre Cabanel.{{cite web|url=https://www.mskgent.be/focus/onder-vrienden-lezers-van-de-gazette-van-gent-van-louis-tytgadt|author=Johan De Smet|title=Onder vrienden: Lezers van de Gazette van Gent van Louis Tytgadt|date=5 December 2023|website=MSK Gent}} In June 1875, Tytgadt visited the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, together with the French artist Eugène Fromentin.Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu, "Nineteenth-Century Visitors to the Frans Hals Museum", in The Documented Image: Visions in Art History, edited by Gabriel P. Weisberg and Laurinda S. Dixon with the assistance of Antje Bultmann Lemke (Syracuse University Press, 1987), p. 135. In 1880 Tytgadt became a teacher at the Ghent academy. By 1892, until 1902, he was director of the academy and its museum. He established the academy's decorative arts section.{{Cite book|title=Gand artistique: revue mensuelle illustrée|volume=1| year=1922|page=42}} In 1902 the museum became a separate institution, the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, with Tytgadt sitting on the board. He also served as deputy chair of the Provincial Commission for the Preservation of Monuments and Landscapes.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n6FFAAAAcAAJ|title=Dubbele wegwyzer der stad Gent en der provincie Oost-Vlaenderen|volume=53|year=1915|page=364}} He died in Ghent in 1918.

During his career, Tytgadt exhibited at the Paris Salon (1888) and the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893).{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/worldscolumbiane02whit|title=The World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893|author1=Trumbull White|author2=William Igleheart|year=1893|pages=357-358}}