The Fall of the Saints
Artist / maker
Frits van den Berghe (painters (artists))Date
1933Period
20th centuryCollection
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
In The Fall of the Saints we see seven figures and a naked women in a dizzying fall. Floating and free-falling figures often feature in Frits Van den Berghe’s work. They represent our uncertainty in a world that offers us less and less to hold onto. The work is probably linked to the growing social unrest around 1930. For this…
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In The Fall of the Saints we see seven figures and a naked women in a dizzying fall. Floating and free-falling figures often feature in Frits Van den Berghe’s work. They represent our uncertainty in a world that offers us less and less to hold onto. The work is probably linked to the growing social unrest around 1930. For this painting Van den Berge did a preliminary study in oils and a drawing in Indian ink, both of which are also in the museum collection.
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