Vlaamse Primitieven

Wat heeft JDB gezien als kunst?

"both De Bruycker and Karel van de Woestijne had reproductions of paintings by the "primitives" in their work areas.[Goddard, p. 72]

73. For Karel's writing area see Gustave van de Woestijne, Karel en ik, pp. 31 and 51. The former described Karel's study in Ghent, which had, in addition to the items listed in Sint Martens Latem, a portrait of Max Elskamp and a photograph of the students at the athenaeum. Gustave makes fun of his brother's natty posture in this photograph. For Willem Kloos see Grote Winkler Prins Encyclopedie, vol. 13 p. 199.

We can see van Eyck's famous portrait, The Man with a Pink (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), in an exaggerated view of De Bruycker's studio in the Pand in a print of 1932 (fig. no. 15);