Galerie Lowet de Wotrenge

Established almost 30 years ago as a private art brokerage firm, in 2012 the gallery, under new leadership, was renamed Galerie Lowet de Wotrenge and moved to its current premises in the historic heart of Antwerp. The gallery deals not only in Flemish and Dutch old master paintings, but also in works on paper and old master sculptures. As far as paintings and drawings are concerned, the focus is mostly, but not exclusively, on Dutch and Flemish works from the 16th to the 18th century. With regard to sculptures, the gallery has a particular interest in Flemish works in terracotta and marble, and has already made several important discoveries in this field. Over the years, the gallery has made many museum sales and loaned artworks for museum exhibitions all over Europe. Furthermore, from time to time, the gallery publishes catalogues and newsletters on its new acquisitions, which frequently include important rediscovered works.

Galerie Lowet de Wotrenge is managed by its director and owner, Tyr Baudouin. A historian by training, he is specialized in early modern cultural history. After a brief internship at Christie's Amsterdam, where he worked at the old master department, he joined the family art brokerage firm and transformed it into a gallery specialized in works by the old masters. Although Antwerp, with its rich cultural history, was always well represented in museums worldwide, where entire rooms are dedicated to the art produced by its most famous sons (and the occasional daughter), it did not have a gallery devoted to Flemish art yet. Galerie Lowet de Wotrenge has, since its inception, sought to fill that gap, bringing masterworks by Flemish artists back to the town where they were first created. Over the years, quite a few of these works have found a permanent home in fine Antwerp institutions such as the Rubenshuis, the Snijders/Rockoxhuis and the Museum Plantin-Moretus. Recently, Tyr Baudouin gifted an oil sketch by Cornelis Schut to the Rubenshuis, in honour of his grandparents Frans Baudouin, honorary curator of the museum, and Paula Smolders.

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