Louis Pevernagie
Louis Pevernagie (1904–1970) was a Belgian expressionist and later abstract painter. Life. Louis Pevernagie was born in Heldergem, Flanders in 1904. He was the father of the painter Erik Pevernagie. The landscapes of the Flemish Ardennes were the inspiration for many of his paintings and gave an idea of Flemish farm life. He obtained a degree of Teaching Education in 1924 but had started his career as a painter already during his studies. He married at the age of 30 and had 2 children. After World War II he moved to Uccle (near Brussels). His ideas and visions  were expressed on canvas and on paper, but also in the media as he had become a journalist at Press Agency Belga. He died in Uccle in 1970. Work. Louis Pevernagie started as an expressionist painter. He mainly used warm colours with a powerful expression. As he was permanently in quest of light he could be classified among the "luminists". He tried to find a right balance between light and shade and conceived his paintings with intensity and self-confidence. His approach was rough and at the same time subtle. He carried out this interesting contradiction in a range of  subjects like farmers at work, landscapes, interiors, nudes, flowers and still lives. After World War II he turned to non-figuration. Also in the abstract period he kept the power and the vigour of his artistic temperament