Ernest Faut

Ernest Faut
Born	Ernest Faut (1879-01-27)27 January 1879 Ghent, Belgium
Died	17 October 1961(1961-10-17) (aged 82) Leuven, Belgium
Education	Academy of Brussels Academy of Leuven
Occupation	Painter

Ernest Faut (27 January 1879 – 17 October 1961) was a Flemish - Belgian painter. He was a draftsman, painter and lithographer of decorative works, landscapes, interiors, psychological portraits, religious scenes, churches and beguinages.

Life and work

Ernest Faut started his education at the Academy of Brussels with Constant Montald and also studied at the Academy of Leuven with Constantin Meunier. He was a professor for forty years (until 1944) at the Academy of Leuven, of which he later became director.

Faut delivered technically very strong paintings, with a delicate and sensitive range of colors. Faut also used the chiaroscuro technique. In the 1930s, his work mainly featured symbolic scenes with a late after-effect of Art Nouveau influences. Some paintings are characterized by a hazy melancholy.

Faut's work is dispersed in several museums, including the M – Museum of Leuven.

Gallery

• 
  Pontificale hoogmis Abdij van het Park
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  De sluisstraat in Leuven

Bibliography

• Marc Eemans, Biografische woordenboek der Belgische kunstenaars van 1830 tot 1970, 1979, vol. 1, p. 216
• Paul Piron, De Belgische beeldende kunstenaars uit de 19de en 20ste eeuw, 1999, vol. 1, p. 550
• La Renaissance du Livre, Le dictionnaire des peintres Belges du XIVe siècle à nos jours Bruxelles, 1994