1. Franz Vinck or Frans Vinck was a Belgian painter known for his history paintings, genre and Orientalist scenes and portraits.
18 Facts About Franz Vinck
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Franz Vinck led a peripatetic life style and travelled and worked in many countries.
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Franz Vinck's father was a bookkeeper at the local gin distiller Louis Meeus.
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Franz Vinck's parents wanted him to study the violin at the Conservatory of Brussels, but instead he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
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In 1846 Franz Vinck debuted at the Salon of Antwerp with his work Joseph with the wife of Putifar.
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Franz Vinck subsequently traveled with a fellow painter to Paris where he copied old masters in the Louvre.
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Franz Vinck made it through the pre-selection, but lost out to Ferdinand Pauwels who won first prize.
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The painter Florent Mols invited Franz Vinck to join him on a trip to the Middle East.
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Franz Vinck became a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Dendermonde.
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When in January 1886 Vincent van Gogh matriculated at the Antwerp Academy, van Gogh got into trouble with a number of his teachers including Franz Vinck who was the instructor of the drawing class.
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Franz Vinck further obtained commissions from abroad including for more Stations of the Cross for the Saint-Nicholas Church in Boulogne-sur-Mer in France and St Cuthbert's, Earls Court in London.
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Franz Vinck died on 3 October 1903 at his home in Berchem.
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Franz Vinck is known primarily for his religious and historical paintings.
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Franz Vinck was drawn towards the then popular Orientalism and created a number of Orientalist paintings inspired by his travels in the Middle East.
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Franz Vinck produced a number of history paintings that were inspired by important episodes in Belgium's history such as the Crowning of Margaretha of Parma.
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Franz Vinck's palette was generally lighter than that of Leys.
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Franz Vinck painted a number of Orientalist paintings, clearly inspired by his visit to the Middle East.
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In sharp contrast to the French Orientalist Theodore Frere for whom a vision of an eternal East, unaffected by modern western concerns, was paramount, Franz Vinck depicted in this composition the meeting between East and West.