Firmin Baes [SEP] place of death
Firmin Baes
Firmin Baes (born 18 April 1874 in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Belgium – died 4 December 1943 in Brussels, Belgium) was a Belgian painter.
Baes was the son of Henri Baes, a lecturer at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, and Héloïse Boly. He had two sisters, Alice and Irma. Baes was brought up in an artistically inclined family. He studied at the "Académie Royale" and was involved in an intellectual circle known as "La Patte de Dindon
François Portaels and history painter Joseph Stallaert.
In line with the trend towards realism of the time, he went to live in the fishing town Knokke in 1882 where he made paintings of the life of the fishermen. There was a large artist colony in Knokke at time which included Alfred Verwee, Louis Artan, Firmin Baes, Richard Baseleer, Alfred Bastien, Henri Cassiers, Franz Courtens and Paul-Jean Clays.
In 1883 he came Second in the Belgian Prix de Rome. After several years of travel which took