Modest Huys

From a young age, he worked in his father's painting and decorating business[1] and later studied at the "Gentse Nijverheidschool" (Ghent Industrial School).

In 1900, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), where his teachers were Eugène Joors and Frans Van Leemputten (1850-1914), but he never completed his studies.

From 1905, he participated in the exhibitions of Vie et Lumière, a luminist group, along with Claus, James Ensor and Jenny Montigny.

After the armistice, he painted scenes of the devastation at the front, then settled in Wakken the following year.

He again began to exhibit extensively, including shows at the Paris Salon and the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.