Marthe Donas
Marthe Donas | |
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Born |
26 October 1885 Antwerp, Belgium |
Education | Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp |
Website | http://www.marthedonas.be |
Marthe Donas (* 26. October 1885 in Antwerp; † 31. January 1967 in Audregnies) was a Belgian abstract and cubist painter and is recognized as one of the leading figures of Modernism[1]:9. Donas worked under the pseudonyms Tour d'Onasky, Tour Donas and M. Donas[1]:90
Marthe Gabrielle Donas grew up in Antwerp as the daughter of a prosperous French-speaking bourgeois family. On her own initiative, she enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp at the age of seventeen. Her authoritarian father, however, did not support her wish to become a painter. As a result, preventing her from going to drawing class and exhibitions and would not allow her being in contact with other students and artists in Antwerp[1]:15. Donas´ paintings at that time were confined to portraits of her family and friend circle[1]:15. Against her father's will, she re-enrolled at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in 1912 following the course for young ladies with Frans Van Kuyck.