Camus is like Fernand Leger meets Gilbert & George
Gustave Camus, a Belgian expressionist painter, was born on April 4, 1914, in Châtelet and passed away on June 9, 1984, in Mons. At the age of 14, he began apprenticing as a house painter, but he abandoned this occupation as soon as his art could sustain him in 1939. He received drawing lessons from sculptor Eugène Paulus at the Charleroi Industrial School (1930-1934) and from Leon Van den Houten at the University of Labor (1932-1937). In 1933, he co-founded the group Living Art in the Land of Charleroi along with Georges Wasterlain. Following the war, critics acknowledged his talent, and he taught painting and drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mons (1951-1976), of which he served as the director from 1961 to 1966 and from 1975 to 1976. While he is considered an Impressionist (1930-1946), he is closer to Fauvism than Monet. It was after a trip to Brittany that he embarked on his second period, which would profoundly influence his work (1946-1950).
www.ftn-books.com has now some Camus publications available.
