Anna Boch was a Belgian painter, born in Saint-Vaast, Hainaut, in the 5th generation of the Boch family who made Ceramics since 1748 Her father Victor Boch operated the company Boch Freres and her uncle Eugen von Boch the company Villeroy & Boch. ![]() Anna Boch participated in the Neo-Impressionist and Impressionnist movement. Her early works used a Pointillist technique, but she is best known for her Impressionist style. As a pupil of Isidore Verheyden, she was influenced by Théo van Rysselberghe. She was the only woman to be part of the Art Moovement Les XX. |
added in 2016 Anna et Vincent a film by Francoise Levie ![]() ![]() Francois Levie has made the fascinating documentary on Anna Boch. The film is shown at the Wellington Museum in Waterloo, south of Brussels The opening night was january 19 2016. In the above picture the filmmaker Françoise Levie with her beautiful daughter, and Anna Boch's family, the sculptor Alfred Blondel, his son Thomas Blondel and the editor of this website. Talking to Alfred Blondel and Françoise Levie was a fascinating a few minutes really worth all the drive to Belgium ... more about the Film Anna & Vincent |
Van Gogh paintings bought by Anna Boch
more about the painting ... The Red Vineyard.com |
Anna Boch and Georges Seurat ... coming soon ![]() La Seine à la Grand Jatte by Georges Seurat was one of several hundred high profile paintings in Anna Boch´s collection. Today the painting is in the Musee Royal de Beaux Arts in Brussels. |
Anna Boch´s Cultural Heritage ![]() Anna and her brother Eugen Boch in 1930. Most of the Anna Boch collection was sold after her death in 1936. In her will, she donated the money to pay for the retirement of poor artist friends. Some paintings were also donated to the Musees Royaux des Beaux Arts in Brussels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 140 paintings were left to Anna´s godchild, Ida van Haelewijn, daughter of the gardener Antoine van Haelewijn. In 1968 Anna´s great nephew, Luitwin von Boch, a successful & visionary entrepreneur aquired the entire collection for a future Anna Boch Museum ... years ahead of his time. ![]() In 1979 Luitwin von Boch opened the Museum of Ceramics where a very limited number of Anna Boch paintings could be seen next to ceramic treasures produced by the family for over 200 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The paintings remained in Ida van Haelewijn´s house until the end of her life in 1992. A permanent Anna Boch Exposition has open in april 2011 the above building in Mettlach / Germany . ![]() ![]() ![]() opening night of the Anna Boch Exposition While updating this website the editor had a coffee with a friend from New York "Why are none of the worldfamous masterpeices of your great aunt's and your great uncle's collection are at the Museum of Ceramics in Mettlach ?". When he was still a child and guide of the museum someone else had asked him the same question ...
there must be a reason .... |
People transmitting information Anna Boch died in 1936,
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