Fons Roggeman

Fons Roggeman (16 June 1939 – 24 December 2024) was a Belgian painter.

Roggeman is considered as one of the pioneers of classically, figurative painters in Flanders of the second half of the 20th-century. In 2017 he won the Binus Culture Prize. His work has been exhibited in many exhibitions and he had an exibition about his entire oeuvre in November 2014.

Roggeman had cancer and had had two major open heart surgeries. He died in Deurle on 24 December 2024, at the age of 85 years old.

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Category:Belgian painters
Category:1939 births
Category:2024 deaths
Category:People from East Flanders