Pieter Franciscus Dierckx (1871 - 1950)

Pieter Franciscus Dierckx

Pieter Dierckx was born February 7 in the Belgian city of Antwerpen in 1871.He was a student at the Art Academy and the Higher Institute in Antwerpen.His teachers were among others Julien De Vriendt,Albert De Vriendt and Karel Verlat.Painter,draughtsman,etcher and graphic designer of portraits,landscapes,genre scenes,mythological and historical compositions in the Impressionist,Realist,Pointillist and Post-Impressionist style.He became director of the Academy of Temse in September 1896 and also taught drawing.Pieter Dierickx belongs to the Waasland school painters.He died on September 4 in Berchem in 1950.Work in museum:Temse.