Anto Carte

Antoine "Anto" Carte (8 December 1886 - 15 February 1954) was a Belgian painter.

Anto Carte
Memorial plaque to Anto Carte in Brussels at 1050, rue de l'Ermitage, 46
Born	Anto Carte (1886-12-08)8 December 1886 Mons, Belgium
Died	15 February 1954(1954-02-15) (aged 67) Ixelles, Belgium
Education	Brussels Royal Academy of Fine Arts Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Mons Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Paris
Occupation	Painter
Movement	Flemish Expressionism

Antoine Carto was born in Mons in 1886. His father was a joiner.[1] Anto Carte was first apprenticed to François Depooter, an interior painter, and then studied art at the academies of Mons and Brussels, and in Paris. He started working in a Symbolist style, but after the First World War became a Flemish Expressionist painter in the style of the painters of the group of Sint-Martens-Latem like Gustave Van de Woestijne. In 1917 he had his first exposition, of illustrations he made for a work by Emile Verhaeren. He exposed together with the Flemish Expressionists at the 1923 Salon d'Automne in Paris. He had a solo exhibition in Pittsburgh, at the Carnegie Institute, in 1924, where all 60 paintings were sold.[1] Retrospective exhibitions at the Museum of Mons were organised in 1949 and in 1995.[2]

Later in his career, he designed many posters and stained glass windows, including in 1927 the windows for a new building at the University of Mons-Hainaut. He also designed a 50 Belgian Francs banknote.[2]

In 1928, he founded the art group Groupe Nervia together with Louis Buisseret. From 1932 on, he was a professor at the La Cambre school and at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.[2]

He lived most of his career in Braine-le-Château, and died in Ixelles in 1954.[2]