Brouwers Rik/Original work illustrating an expressionist influenced landscape: a bust in a courtyard with Mechelen cathedral in the background. Oil on canvas signed around 1930. Original quality frame. TBE+. 55 X 65 cm Brouwers (1904-1978) is a painter, draughtsman, watercolourist and engraver. He trained at the Academy of Mechelen (1919-1925). "Three periods are identifiable in his work. The first one is characterized by an expressionism with cubist and consructivist influences at the beginning. From the very beginning, certain characteristics stand out: the figurative basis, a realism with an abstract tendency, the precise representation of materials, the unusual angle of view and an extreme non-conformism. Around 1943, he began a series of experiments with reality. This second period is characterized by various problems of form, an exacerbated sensuality, a tendency to abstraction, "pictorial" assemblages and above all a tendency to Faliénation that is increasingly strong and evokes an unreal world. In his most recent style, he achieves the curious synthesis of an essentially "realistic look at a fantastic, threatening, sinister world. He was a professor at the Academy of Mechelen from 1945 to 1954. Biographical book published in 1989 following the last retrospective exhibition of the artist.