Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe

Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe

Wife Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe on the flowery terrace by Victor Gilsoul
Born 5 April 1868
Düsseldorf, Germany
Died 15 November 1939(1939-11-15) (aged 71)
Nationality Belgian
Known for Painting
Style Watercolor
Spouse(s) Victor Gilsoul (1894-)

Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe (1868 – 1939) was a Belgian painter who mostly worked in watercolors.

Gilsoul-Hoppe was born in Düsseldorf as the daughter of the engraver Edouard Hoppe. She trained in Bisschoffsheim school in Brussels where in 1894 she married the painter Victor Gilsoul.

She is known for interiors, landscapes and cityscapes, and her painting Interior hallway was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[1]

Gallery

Galerie Lyceum

She began a Brussels gallery in 1911 together with Berthe Art and some friends. The gallery was called the Galerie Lyceum. Other founding members were Alice Ronner, Emma Ronner, Anna Boch, Louise Danse, Marie Danse, and Juliette Wytsman.

References

Footnotes

  1. Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905

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