Victor Gilsoul (1867-1939) - Le Moulin de la Sault

Victor Gilsoul (1867-1939)
Le Moulin de la Sault, (circa 1920)
oil on canvas signed lower left
46x55cm
70x80cm framed

Victor Gilsoul (1867-1939)
Born in Brussels on October 9, 1867 and died in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert December 5, 1939. An impressionist and luminist painter, Victor Olivier Gilsoul enjoyed great success and worked mainly for the European nobility. He won at the age of 14 the first prize of the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and in 1883, at the age of 17, he had his first salon exhibition in Brussels. He continued his training at the Brussels Academy of (1885-1890). In 1898, Victor Gilsoul was knighted by King Leopold II of Belgium, in 1900 he received the silver medal at the Universal Exhibition in Paris. Between 1911 and 1923, "The French era", Victor Gilsoul, did and worked in Paris. In 1924, he became a professor at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp. His early dark painting style became lighter and brighter around 1910. Preferring depictions of nature, water and light, he also painted interiors, portraits, city views. His work is neither entirely realistic nor completely impressionistic. His landscapes are composed of powerful and sober masses of paint ordered in modernist compositions.

Public collections:
Musée d'Orsay Paris
Musée Charlier and the
Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp Museums in Luxembourg, Namur, Ostend, Mons, Dordrecht, Diksmuide, Bruges, Brussels, Ixelles, Barcelona, Brighton, and Krefeld. In 1902, the city of Brussels commissioned four paintings from him. In 1915, the city of Paris bought a painting.