09-02-2023, 04:39 PM
Joseph Leopold Ratinckx (Antwerp, 9 January 1860 - Berchem, 17 November 1937) was a Belgian painter.
His father wanted him to be trained as a typographer after primary school and thus refused his son's request to attend the courses at the Academy of Fine Arts. As a result, Jos ended up in the studio of the Ratinckx brothers, cousins of his father, as an apprentice printer. However, it was his employer who was able to persuade the father to give his son a chance as a lithographer. For nine years, he then took drawing and painting lessons under the guidance of well-known professors and artists, including Nicaise De Keyser and Karel Verlat.
In the meantime, he became proficient in lithography but this profession no longer fascinated him. He wanted to fully indulge himself as a painter. Although he was known as a skilled watercolourist, he preferred oil painting. He was elected to the municipal council on 17 November 1895, but left the council upon his appointment as director and teacher at the municipal drawing school.
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His father wanted him to be trained as a typographer after primary school and thus refused his son's request to attend the courses at the Academy of Fine Arts. As a result, Jos ended up in the studio of the Ratinckx brothers, cousins of his father, as an apprentice printer. However, it was his employer who was able to persuade the father to give his son a chance as a lithographer. For nine years, he then took drawing and painting lessons under the guidance of well-known professors and artists, including Nicaise De Keyser and Karel Verlat.
In the meantime, he became proficient in lithography but this profession no longer fascinated him. He wanted to fully indulge himself as a painter. Although he was known as a skilled watercolourist, he preferred oil painting. He was elected to the municipal council on 17 November 1895, but left the council upon his appointment as director and teacher at the municipal drawing school.
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