Josse Impens
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ca. 1840
Josse Impens | |
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 Painter in front of his easel (self portrait) | |
| Born | Josse Impens ca. 1840 Brussels, Belgium |
| Died | ca. 1905 Schaerbeek, Belgium |
| Education | Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts |
| Occupation | Painter |
Josse Impens (1840–1905) was a Belgian painter known for his interior scenes, genre scenes, portraits and nudes. He painted a number of scenes of artists and women in artist studios seen from the back.[1] He also painted some city views.[2]
Impens was born in Brussels. He studied in his home town at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts where Jean-François Portaels was one of his teachers. Portaels was a prominent painter of genre scenes, biblical stories, landscapes, portraits and Orientalist subjects and the founder of the Belgian Orientalist school. Portaels further operated a private art studio in which he trained the next generation of Belgian painters.[3] Impens was also one of the students in Portaels' private studio.[4]
Impens exhibited works at the salons in Brussels (1891 and 1896) and Munich (1891 and 1894).[2]
He lived and worked in Schaerbeek where he died in 1905.[2]
