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Vantongerloo [van Tongerloo], Georges
(b Antwerp, 24 Nov 1886; d Paris, 5 Oct 1965). Belgian sculptor and painter. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp (1900–04) and at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels (1906–9). During World War I he moved to The Hague as a refugee. In 1915 he met Jules Schmalzigaug, who introduced him to Cubism and Futurism. His sculpture of this period consists of impressionistic representations of the human body, while his painting reflects a debt to Pointillism (e.g. Sitting Man, 1917; priv. col., see Gast, p. 234).
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