Father frans claerhout biography
Frans claerhout paintings
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Biography
The Flemish artist Father Frans Claerhout was born at Pittem in the western part of Belgium in Claerhout completed his training for the priesthood in and was sent to South Africa in as a Catholic missionary.
(His other choices had been Brazil or the Congo) Initially he worked in the Transvaal but in he was transferred to Bloemfontein, the capital of the Orange Free State. He worked as a missionary among the black villages around Bloemfontein, where his congregations consisted of simple and illiterate people living in impoverished surroundings.
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During his first year in Bloemfontein, Claerhout made no contact with other artists and his only artistic activities were little illustrative sketches for his mother.
Father frans claerhout biography
He started painting seriously in , rough sketches, somber scenes in dull colours. In Claerhout moved to Thaba ‘Nchu where he started painting more. He saw Thaba ‘Nchu as an artisis