Fernand Toussaint | Still Life

Fernand Toussaint (1873-1956)🎨 rightfully takes his place among the most important Belgian Post-Impressionist painters of the 20 th century.

With his refined taste and sensitivities, Toussaint also excelled as a painter of flowers🎨 e had a particular predilection for roses, often in full bloom, but more modest and even fragile flowers such as pansies and sweet peas were depicted with the same delicate attention and emotion.

Although essentially an urban dweller, Toussaint nevertheless experienced the joy of solitude in nature, especially in Belgium, and so he often returned home with landscapes and seascapes of great simplicity as well as interest.

His representation of a stroll in front of a cottage garden bursting with flowers, the little group of picnickers in the park and the rural solitude captured around a bridge over the canal in Damme are typical, but he also painted views of the Belgian coast with its dunes and harbours.

For biographical notes notes -in english and italian - on Toussaint see:

• Fernand Toussaint | Figures🎨.