Alfons Blomme

Alfons Blomme ( Roeselare , February 2nd 1889 - there, June 10 1979 ) was a Flemish artist .

Biography
From 1902 followed Blomme classes at the Academy of drawing, sculpture and architecture. He took out top honors in 1909. As a future painter, he studied at the Industrial School. He would never exercise it.Blomme perfected herself at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. When he went to Brussels attracted to study, he came into contact with art nouveau and neo-impressionism . He stayed with this art style, although his contemporaries went over to the surrealism . He discovered the work of Emile Claus and developed his own pointillist technique. This was wide-pointillist and is sometimes referred to as dash technique.Large areas of color are not colored but filled with great items or stripes. This later became known as' blommisme.

The First World War he spent in Netherlands, in the Zeeland Renesse. After his return in 1920 he won the Grand Prix de Rome . Alfons Blomme traveled widely and was inspired by his travels to landscapes, cityscapes and portraits of buildings. Painting was not his only artistic activity. He also drew sketches and made sculptures. From 1935 to 1940 he was director of the Ostend Academy.

In 1929 married Blomme Kaatje the Feijter. He left after his marriage capital of the coastal region and settled in the Villa Martha to Driftweg in De Haan . There he came in 1933 as an art teacher in contact with Albert Einstein and his daughter. They became friends and Blomme could include a portrait of Einstein.

Blomme was a much painter, in that its cloths by the multiple of their occurrence decreased in value. Sometimes he paid bills with paintings. After the Second World War he organized several exhibitions that were still included the visit of Queen Elizabeth.

In December 1972 he opened the Museum Alfons Blomme into the east street Roeselare. After his death the museum are works that were stored there, and all its furnishings in testament to the city of Roeselare.The museum was later the city transformed into an art gallery. On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, the square was at the crossroads of the Delaerestraat and St. Alphonsus Street to Alfons Blomme Square renamed. The square was further embellished with a bust of Alfons Blomme, carved by the Roeselare Julianne Szücs.

Blomme work can also be found in the collection of the KaZ in Ostend (the merger of the PMMK and MSK in Ostend), including a portrait of Albert Einstein and one of James Ensor .