ABSTRACT
The term “Flemish expressionism” was coined during the 1920s to describe an important aspect of contemporaneous modern figurative art in Belgium. The term was applied both to works by Flemish artists bearing a stylistic relationship to German expressionism, as evidenced by their distorted forms, coloration, and dynamic compositions, and to works considered to be cubist in nature with regards to their sense of balance, synthesis, and construction. The key figures within this group are Gustave De Smet (1877–1943), Frits Van den Berghe (1883–1939), and Constant Permeke (1886–1952). 1
