Auguste Danse

1829 Brussels – 1929 Ukkel, Brussels

The Belgian painter and printmaker, Auguste Danse, who studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux Arts in Brussels and was trained by Luigi Calamatta at the École de Gravure of the Dewasne Institute of Lithography, inaugurated the engraving class at the Academy in Mons in 1882 which he headed as its first professor. From 1905 he was a permanent member of the Académie Royale de Belgique. His extensive printed oeuvre comprises some 300 sheets, including around fifty portraits and numerous works of his own invention. A third of his output consists of reproductions after old Dutch and Italian masters as well as contemporaries such as Léon Bonnat, Honoré Daumier, Meunier and Émile Charles Wauters.