Théo Van Rysselberghe was one of the most important Belgian painters of Pointillism, a style attributed to Post-Impressionism. He first began his art studies at the art academy of his hometown Ghent. Later he attended the art academy in Brussels together with James Ensor. There he became a student of Jean-Francois Portaels. The North African works of Portaels encouraged Van Rysselberghe to undertake several trips to North Africa and Andalusia himself. His first public exhibition took place at the Salon Brussels, where clear influences of Manet and Degas could be seen. Van Rysselberghe was also one of the co-founders of the Belgian artists' circle Les XX, a group of young radical artists under the patronage of the art critic Octave Maus.
Maus sent Van Rysselberghe to Paris in search of talent for Les XX. because of his growing connections to the French art scene. There he first came into contact with Pointillism when he met Georges Seurat. Seurat's painting "A Sunday afternoon on La Grande Jatte" had particularly impressed him. The following year Rysselberghe invited Seurat to the Salon of Les XX, but the Belgian art scene could not understand Rysselberghe's fascination. However, he did not allow himself to be put off by this. He broke away from realism and introduced Pointillism to Belgium together with Van Velde, Lemmen and a few other painters. During the next 20 years of his work, he remained more or less faithful to this style. After the death of his friend and role model Seurat, he gradually abandoned this technique and began to make increasingly longer brushstrokes. At the same time, his paintings became much more colourful and brighter.
He spent the last years of his life together with his wife Marie and daughter Elizabeth in the town of Saint-Clair, on the Côte d'Azur. His friend and colleague Henri-Edmond Cross also lived in this area. He had his residence designed by his older brother, the architect Octave Van Rysselberghe, who also became his neighbour. From then on, Van Rysselberghe began to detach himself more and more from the Brussels art scene. His later works were more often devoted to the female nude, such as "Four Bathers". But the Mediterranean landscape and portraits of his wife, brother and daughter became equally popular motifs.
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_1892_Sun_06x08_m_-_(MeisterDrucke-951845).jpg "The man at the helm by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Saint Tropez, View of the Chapel St, c.1920 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Sunset; L")
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.jpg "Th. v. Rysselberghe, Moonlit Night in Boulogne by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "The Mediterranean at Le Lavandou by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "The Red Sail by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Coastal Scene by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Landscape of the South, c.1910 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "The Island of Levant, seen from Cap Benat, 1893 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Kalf Mill in Knokke or Windmill in Flanders by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Family in the Orchard by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "The Sisters of the Painter Schlobach, 1884 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Sailing Boat on the River Escaut, 1892 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Young Woman in Green Dress, Germaine Maréchal by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "La pointe Saint Pierre a Saint Tropez by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Signac on His Boat by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "The Man at the Helm by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Paul Signac on His Boat by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1629633).jpg "Portrait of Henri Gheon, c.1903 by Theo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Nude on a Divan, 1907 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Cap Bénat, Pine on the Coast by Theo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Reclining Nude by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Woman in a Mirror, 1907 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Seated Nude Woman, c.1912 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "The Sea during Equinox, Boulogne-sur-Mer by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Vase of Flowers, 1907 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1628573).jpg "Self-Portrait, c.1880 by Theo van Rysselberghe")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1656624).jpg "Signac on His Boat by Theo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Bathers by Theo van Rysselberghe")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1636947).jpg "Portrait of Maurice Maeterlinck, c.1903 by Theo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "The Man at the Tiller by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1656457).jpg "Reading by Theo van Rysselberghe")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1630441).jpg "Denise Maréchal, c.1894 by Theo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Portrait of Auguste Descamps, the painter")
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.jpg "Poster Advertising")
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.jpg "The Sambre Valley by Theo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Entrance to the Port of Volendam by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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_concerts_in_Bruxelles_Poster_by_V_-_(MeisterDrucke-1464091).jpg "Music. La Libre Esthetique (The Free Aesthetic), concerts in Bruxelles. Poster by Van Rysselberghe, Belgium by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "The Model")
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.jpg "Young Woman on the Banks of the Greve River by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1656412).jpg "Portrait of the Violinist Irma Sethe by Theo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Portrait of Henri de Régnier, c. 1898 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Coastal Scene. Around 1892 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "The Bathers by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Poster for the Lembrée Gallery by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Girl by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "A View of Veere, Misty Morning, 1906 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Nude in a basin by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Petit Plage, Saint Tropez by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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_late_1890s_(oil_on_board)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1113935).jpg "The Pink Ribbon (Sylvie Lacombe), late 1890s by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Portrait of Emile Verhaeren by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Bouquet of Flowers, 1905 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Bathers by the Sea, 1907-08 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "The Mansur Gate in Meknes, Morocco by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Advertisement poster of the Lembree Art Gallery in Brussels by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1656400).jpg "Family in a Garden with Fruit Trees by Theo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "The Tennis Game, 1889 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "View of the River Scheldt by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1655888).jpg "Belgian Writer Emile Verhaeren by Theo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Diane, c. 1920-1924 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Young Girl with Vases of Flowers by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Bathers at Cap Benat by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Vase of Flowers by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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_18_-_(MeisterDrucke-1030356).jpg "Belle Epoque: Woman Reading by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Bather by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Landscape of the South, c.1920-1922 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Madame Maurice Denis by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1118535).jpg "Portrait of the Artist")
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.jpg "Sailing Boats in an Estuary, c.1892-93 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Woman with Red Hair by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "The Bather by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Portrait of Marguerite van Mons, 1886 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1453896).jpg "Big Clouds by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Countryside at Noon by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "The Bay at Sunset Saint Clair, 1916 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Sailboat on the Scheldt by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Woman Reading by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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_Bel_-_(MeisterDrucke-969937).jpg "Sailboats and estuary by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "The Lecture by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Madame van de Velde and her Children, 1903 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "The Café Concert by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Two Nudes under Pine-Trees by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Sunset at Ambleteuse, Pas-de-Calais, 1899 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Port de Cette, Les Tartanes, 1892 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Butchery in Tanger by Theo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Big Clouds by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "At Thuin or The Tennis Game by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "The Lecture by Emile Verhaeren by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "The Samber Valley by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Woman with Violin by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Maria and Elisabeth van Rysselberghe Knitting in the Garden, c.1912 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Marie-Anne Weber Playing the Violin by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Windmill in Flanders by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Self Portrait, 1916 by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Fishing Fleet, from the seventh album of L")
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.jpg "Making One")
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.jpg "Portrait of Madame Dubois by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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_at_his_office_Painting_-_(MeisterDrucke-948017).jpg "Portrait of the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren at his office by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1440941).jpg "Armand Heins Painting by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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.jpg "Butchery in Tanger by Théo van Rysselberghe")
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