Louis Thevenet

Louis François Joseph Marie Thevenet (12 February 1874, Bruges - 16 August 1930, Halle) was a Belgian painter.

He was the son of Alphonse Thevenet, originally from France, a music teacher and baritone, and his wife Anne Van Vyve.

[1] There, he worked at several odd jobs, including errand boy, apprentice baker and assistant confectioner in a pastry shop.

[1] In 1896, he decided to became an artist; possibly influenced by his boyhood friend, Pierre Scoupreman [nl].

From 1897 to 1903 he regularly stayed in Nieuwpoort, in the company of the painter Auguste Oleffe, his primary mentor.