Anto Carte

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Memorial plaque to Anto Carte in Brussels at 1050, rue de l'Ermitage, 46

Antoine "Anto" Carte (8 December 1886 - 15 February 1954) was a Belgian painter.

Antoine Carto was born in

Emile Verhaeren. He exposed together with the Flemish Expressionists at the 1923 Salon d'Automne in Paris. He had a solo exhibition in Pittsburgh, at the Carnegie Institute, in 1924, where all 60 paintings were sold.[1] Retrospective exhibitions at the Museum of Mons were organised in 1949 and in 1995.[2]

Later in his career, he designed many posters and stained glass windows, including in 1927 the windows for a new building at the University of Mons-Hainaut. He also designed a 50 Belgian Francs banknote.[2]

In 1928, he founded the art group

Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.[2]

He lived most of his career in Braine-le-Château, and died in Ixelles in 1954.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Anto Carte" (in French). Mons. Archived from the original on 26 April 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  2. ^ .

External links