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Why do we still know so little about frans frengen?
Has he a late start? Has he only invented his technique now?
I must answer:” NO!” As a 10-year old boy a connoisseur of art of Antwerp bought his first oil painting
with the words: “Do continue, we gonna hear more from you in the future.” Without any doubt frans frengen
had always kept word. Increasingly concerned about the world around him, he sought his own way. In all shapes
and images he did. Always when he recognized some parts of his former style in works of an other " artist"
he changed HIS style.
He studied famous artists and their work. So he searched further. He attended classes at the “Famous Artists
School” of New York by Al Parker, Norman Rockwell and many others, because his parents wanted him to learn
another profession. But by frans Frengen it was his nature, more as a passion. Art was his life. He studied
at the academy a few years later - with much success though.He was a very beloved and talented student.
He also experimented in many areas. And finally
he found his “Fumagine” (1978). This technique, he would never show (scramble) it to the world before he was
master of this technique and he could work all the way about... Although it was extremely difficult because
he could easily paint all he wanted ... He received offers, also from the Ministry. He shrugged off everything.
He would leave it to others. (In “that” time earlier artists said: You are a young artist even when you were 50.
So plenty of time.) He spent over 10 years to learn about his “ fumagine” and when his mother was dying (1987)
he promised to stay out of media if she could live longer. Does this help? When she died in 1996,
frans frengen still worked constantly to improve his style. And he devoted himself more than ever to his
disciples.
Gradually his works were discovered ... after a short time as director at school. He began to appear. It was
already 2006. In the hope that art lovers and collectors appreciate his unique style ....
We got a problem here. Frans frengen always wanted that his work could not be photographed.
And there he succeeded ; his witnesses are even professional photographers ...
But of course this brings with it that the photographs he puts on his site …
“always be viewed differently…– something he often hears in galleries and by art historians - that only at the
moment when they see the real artworks dumbfounded them. This work can only be admired in reality. (Actually
what you should expect from each work of art). Frengen wanted to protect his work for plagiarism. Often
impossible, but he tried. Unique work recognizable between others in this world is this still feasible?
Indeed. Try it out. A real collector can forever be linked with the value of this work. It’s all honesty.
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