Peter De GLAS (1930-): " On a walk " painting oil on panel 1974

Peter de Glas was born on 29 October 1930. His cradle was somewhere under the canopy of the Netherlands, close to Breda, namely in the Brabant village of Terheyden. He is the son of a ready-to-wear manufacturer, Herman de Glas, whose business went bust in 1932. His father who failed to cope with this ended up in a mental institution. His mother ended up, overnight, in a slum in Schiedam. Hired at the age of 16 as an errand boy at a banking institution, Peter de Glas followed, via evening studies, a commercial training course. In his spare time, he took drawing lessons from Jaap de Raadt in Schiedam. Although he had initially planned to settle in France to paint, he stuck to Ghent in 1963. It was in Ghent that he came to painting to the full. He waited a very long time before exhibiting his work: - 1982: in gallery Palel, Dendermonde - 1982: in castle Steylelinck, Wilrijk - 1984: a large exhibition in the St. Amanduskapel of the Campo Santo, set up with the cooperation of the Ghent city council. - 1986: during the Ghent art event Chambre d'Amis at his houses, under the name Chambre Séparée - 1987: in the Gasthuisberg in Leuven (University Hospital) - 1987: in the castle of Gaasbeek - 1987: at his house - 1988: participation in two group exhibitions; in Ostend, Museum of Modern Religious Art; in Tervuren, in the Colonial Palace - 1988: in the Public Library in Ledeberg He was selected for the Painting Prize in Baaigem in 1981 and for the Drawing Prize of the city of Ronse in the same year.