Joseph Dierickx (1865-1959). "the Boom".

Old frame in wood and stucco, gilded (restored). Usual wear; Frame dimensions: 55 x 66 cm.
Dimensions without frame: 28 x 39 cm. Sign. Label on the back: Exhibition of Uccle Center d'Art, L'estacade.
José Dierickx, known as Joseph Dierickx, born in Brussels in 1865, died in 1959, is a belgian painter. Joseph Dierickx continued his artistic studies from 1881 to 1886 at the Academy of Brussels where he was taught by Jean-François Portaels and Joseph Stallaert. He accumulates the first prizes there. He exhibited at several salons including those of L'Essor from 1885. He received the Godecharle Prize in 1887 with a painting entitled La Résurrection de Lazare. In 1892 he was the co-founder of the Brussels artistic circle Pour l'Art. He teaches at the Saint-Michel college and at the decorative arts school in Ixelles. In 1966, the cultural and artistic center of Uccle devoted a retrospective to him.