Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp)
Luc-Peter Crombé was born in Opwijk, a small Flemish city northwest of Brussels. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Sint-Lucas Academie in Ghent, as well as at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp). He was a student of and Constant Permeke. Crombé studied art history in the École du Louvre in Paris and also spent time in the mid 1940s at the influential Académie de la Grande Chaumière where he learned how to draw the female body.