al die vele jaren, politieke of taalkwesties met hem besproken. Wel kon hij, af en toe,
schertsend of sarkastisch een schot - vóór of tegen - aflaten. Verder ging het niet." (Goddard)
"Together with Antwerp, Ghent played a significant role in the Flemish Movement, which sought the same legal and social footing for the Flemish-speaking population of Belgium as had long been enjoyed by the French-speaking.4 The Royal Flemish Academy for Literature and Linguistics [Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Taal- en Letterkunde] was established in Ghent in 1886. Tokens of the "language problem" occasionally appear in De Bruycker's works, but as was the case with political issues in general, he did not reveal his opinions in his work. It would appear that he alienated neither
linguistic camp, for among the distinguished literary figures from Ghent who wrote admiringly about De Bruycker was a leading figure in Flemish letters, Karel van de Woestijne, and three others who wrote in French: Jean de Bosschère, Grégoire le Roy and Franz Hellens.5 Even De Bruycker's close friend Peter Bonnel emphasized the artist's essentially apolitical stance.6 In his private correspondence with the Dutch collectors Jacob and Louise de Graaff-Bachiene, however, De Bruycker expressed a decidedly pro-Flemish attitude, and it is probably significant that in addition to his following among the readership of Vooruit, one of the key studies on De Bruycker was by Achilles Mussche, a leading Flemish socialist, advocate of Flemish letters, and native of Ghent."
(Goddard).
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