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Jacques Schyrgens
Jacques Schyrgens (born in Elsene, Belgium 1923) is a Belgian-Canadian painter (watercolors) and illustrator.
His Father was Antoine Schyrgens (1890–1981), architect, draftsman, painter, teacher and a founder of the Beaux Arts Academy in Ostend. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts Ostend, and studied anatomy at Serge Mako's studio in Paris and in attended an Art College in Rome, Italy for three years. He traveled in Spain, the United States and Mexico before emigrating
some of this time in Kenora establishing a silk screen studio and experimented with wood and linoleum block printing which he utilized as the illustrator for a book (H.D. Thoreau, Walden or Life in the Woods) published by Poole Hall Press in 1977.
1981 found him in Winnipeg, where he established a studio and continued to produce colorful and dynamic street scenes.
Between August and September 2007, the Lake of the Woods Museum, Kenora, Ontario hosted "Kenora Paintings by Jacques Schyrgens", a 40 watercolor retrospective of