Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe

Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe (1868–1939) was a Belgian painter who mostly worked in watercolors.

Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe
Wife Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe on the flowery terrace by Victor Gilsoul
Born5 April 1868
Düsseldorf, Germany
Died15 November 1939(1939-11-15) (aged 71)
NationalityBelgian
Known forPainting
StyleWatercolor
SpouseVictor Gilsoul (1894-1910)

Gilsoul-Hoppe was born in Düsseldorf as the daughter of the engraver Edouard Hoppe. She trained in Bisschoffsheim school in Brussels where in 1894 she married the painter Victor Gilsoul.

She is known for interiors, landscapes and cityscapes, and her painting Interior hallway was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[1]

Galerie Lyceum

She began a Brussels gallery in 1911 together with Berthe Art and some friends. The gallery was called the Galerie Lyceum. Other founding members were Alice Ronner, Emma Ronner, Anna Boch, Louise Danse, Marie Danse, and Juliette Wytsman.

References

  1. Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905


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