Jean Gouweloos

Jean Léon Henri Gouweloos (1865/8–1943) was a Belgian painter, draughtsman, affichiste, and lithographer.

Life Jean Léon Henri Gouweloos was born in Brussels in 1865 or 1868. Before starting his artistic studies, he lived in Paris, designing posters. He then worked in his uncle's printing press, specialising in art prints.

Like his brother Charles (1867–1946), Jean Gouweloos studied from 1887 to 1890 and from 1893 to 1894 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. He was a pupil of the painter and decorator Albert Charle and the painter Jean Portaels.

From 1887 he exhibited his works in Brussels, Namur, Ostend, and abroad: Paris (1900 and 1903), Düsseldorf (1904), Berlin (1908), Munich (1913). In 1891, he became a member of the artists' circle 'Voorwaarts'.

He also produced two frescoes on the ceiling of the Casino-Kursaal in Ostend and twelve paintings for the Lodge of the Freemasons in Brussels (1900). There he often painted beach scenes. In Scheveningen, he was friends with the painter Emmanuel Viérin, who also stayed there as a war refugee.

He died in 1943 in Brussels,

His works are held in several Belgian museums. Rêverie is in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.

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