Georges Hulin de Loo [SEP] place of death
Georges Hulin de Loo
Georges Hulin de Loo (10 December 1862, in Ghent – 27 December 1945, in Brussels) was a Belgian art historian specialising in Early Netherlandish art. He was educated in his home city of Ghent where he attended high school and university, earning a Ph.D from the Faculty of Arts in 1883, and a degree in law three years later. He then traveled to Germany and Paris to continue his studies, returning to Ghent in 1889 to take up a teaching position the University of
Italian biographer Lodovico Guicciardini included de Beer in his list of famous Netherlandish artists of 1567. Despite his contemporary reputation, the artist's name fell into complete obscurity at the end of the 16th century and was only rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century. Art historians Georges Hulin de Loo and Max Friedländer played a key role in the rediscovery of the artist. In 1902 Hulin de Loo discovered the artist's signature on a sketch of (British Museum), which he published in 1913. Two years later Friedländer, in