29 Notable alumni of
University College Ghent

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University College Ghent is 1431st in the world, 491st in Europe, and 9th in Belgium by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 29 notable alumni from University College Ghent sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. Lukas Dhont

    Lukas Dhont
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1991-.. (age 33)
    Occupations
    screenwriterfilm director
    Biography

    Lukas Dhont is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. His debut feature film, Girl, premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or and the Queer Palm awards. He was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in 2019. His second feature film, Close, premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where he shared the Grand Prix with Claire Denis' Stars At Noon. In 2023, Close was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film representing Belgium.

  2. Felix van Groeningen

    Felix van Groeningen
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1977-.. (age 47)
    Occupations
    scenographerperforming artistfilm producertheatrical directorscreenwriter
    Biography

    Felix van Groeningen is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. He is known for The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012) and Belgica (2016), with the former being nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards. He made his English-language debut with the biographical drama Beautiful Boy (2018) and was awarded with the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize for The Eight Mountains (2022).

  3. Philippe Herreweghe

    Philippe Herreweghe
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1947-.. (age 77)
    Occupations
    conductorcomposermusicianchoir director
    Biography

    Philippe Maria François Herreweghe, Knight Herreweghe is a Belgian conductor and choirmaster.

  4. Frans Masereel

    Frans Masereel
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1889-1972 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    visual artistgraphic artistwood engraverprintmakerdrawer
    Biography

    Frans Masereel was a Belgian painter and graphic artist who worked mainly in France. He is known especially for his woodcuts which focused on political and social issues, such as war and capitalism. He completed over 40 wordless novels in his career, and among these, his greatest is generally said to be Passionate Journey.

  5. Jonas Geirnaert

    Jonas Geirnaert
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1982-.. (age 42)
    Occupations
    television directorscreenwriteractorpencilleranimator
    Biography

    Jonas Geirnaert studied animation at the KASK in Ghent. In May 2004, he won the Short Film Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival with his animated short Flatlife (11 min). The first minute of the film was the only portion with sound because it was a student project that was unfinished at the time of the selection entry deadline.

  6. Constant Permeke

    Constant Permeke
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1886-1952 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    sculptorpainterdrawerartist
    Biography

    Constant Permeke was a Belgian painter and sculptor who is considered the leading figure of Flemish Expressionism.

  7. Georges Minne

    Georges Minne
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1866-1941 (aged 75)
    Enrolled in University College Ghent
    Studied in 1883-1886
    Occupations
    paintervisual artistgraphic artistdrawersculptor
    Biography

    George Minne (born Georgius Joannes Leonardus Minne; 30 August 1866 – 18 February 1941) was a Belgian artist and sculptor famous for his idealized depictions of man's inner spiritual conflicts, including the "Kneeling Youth" sculpture series. A contemporary of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, Minne's work shows many similarities in both form and subject matter to the Viennese Secessionists, the fathers of Art Nouveau.

  8. Raoul Servais

    Raoul Servais
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1928-2023 (aged 95)
    Enrolled in University College Ghent
    Studied in 1946-1950
    Occupations
    comics artistdirectoruniversity teacherfilm directoranimator
    Biography

    Raoul Servais was a Belgian filmmaker, animator and comics artist. He was born in Ostend, Belgium, and is a fundamental figure of the Belgian animation scene, as well as the founder of the animation faculty of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK).

  9. Valerius de Saedeleer

    Valerius de Saedeleer
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1867-1941 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Valerius de Saedeleer or Valerius De Saedeleer was a Belgian landscape painter, whose works are informed by a Symbolist and mystic-religious sensitivity and the traditions of 16th-century Flemish landscape painting. He was one of the main figures in the so-called first School of Latem which in the first decade of the 20th century introduced modernist trends in Belgian painting and sculpture.

  10. Gustave De Smet

    Gustave De Smet
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1877-1943 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Gustave Franciscus De Smet was a Belgian painter. Together with Constant Permeke and Frits Van den Berghe, he was one of the founders of Flemish Expressionism. His younger brother, Léon De Smet, also became a painter.

  11. Gustave Van de Woestijne

    Gustave Van de Woestijne
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1881-1947 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Gustave Van de Woestijne was a Belgian expressionist painter.

  12. Frits Van den Berghe

    Frits Van den Berghe
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1883-1939 (aged 56)
    Occupations
    painterprintmakerillustrator
    Biography

    Frits Van den Berghe was a Belgian expressionist and surrealist painter and illustrator.

  13. Constant Montald

    Constant Montald
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1862-1944 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    painterteachermuralistdrawersculptor
    Biography

    Constant Montald was a Belgian painter, muralist, sculptor, and teacher.

  14. François-Auguste Gevaert

    François-Auguste Gevaert
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1828-1908 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    university teachertheoristcomposerwritermusic teacher
    Biography

    François-Auguste Gevaert was a Belgian musicologist and composer.

  15. Walter De Buck

    Walter De Buck
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1934-2014 (aged 80)
    Enrolled in University College Ghent
    Studied in 1954
    Occupations
    sculptorsinger
    Biography

    Walter De Buck was a Belgian singer, sculptor and the founder of the modern Gentse Feesten (Ghent Festival).

  16. Dirk Braeckman

    Dirk Braeckman
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1958-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    theatrical directorphotographercreator
    Biography

    Dirk Braeckman is a Belgian photographer who lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. The artist studied photography and film at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent from 1977 until 1981.

  17. Jan Frans De Boever

    Jan Frans De Boever
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1872-1949 (aged 77)
    Enrolled in University College Ghent
    Studied in 1896
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Jan Frans De Boever was a Belgian Symbolist painter, known for his paintings of voluptuous nude women in morbid contexts. Skeletons, death and eroticism flood his oeuvre. He made illustrations in gouache for Charles Baudelaire's famous Les Fleurs du mal for the Ghent collector and art patron Léon Speltinckx with 157 gouaches. While he was a successful artist during most of his lifetime, his megalomaniac character made him a solitary and isolated individual.

  18. Alfred Bastien

    Alfred Bastien
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1873-1955 (aged 82)
    Enrolled in University College Ghent
    Studied in 1882
    Occupations
    painterdrawerteacher
    Biography

    Alfred Théodore Joseph Bastien was a Belgian artist, academic, and soldier.

  19. Joseph Paelinck

    Joseph Paelinck
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1781-1839 (aged 58)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Joseph Paelinck, was a painter from the Southern Netherlands.

  20. Aimée de Jongh

    Aimée de Jongh
    Born in
    Netherlands Flag Netherlands
    Years
    1988-.. (age 36)
    Occupations
    animatorillustratorcomics artist
    Biography

    Aimée de Jongh is a Dutch cartoonist, animator, and illustrator who publishes in Dutch and English. Her books have received the Prix Saint-Michel, the Atomium Comic Strip Prizes and the International Manga Award.

  21. Gerda Dendooven

    Gerda Dendooven
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1962-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    dramaturgewriterscenographercreatoractor
    Biography

    Gerda Dendooven is a Belgian illustrator. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Gouden Uil, the Woutertje Pieterse Prijs and the Boekenpauw on several occasions.

  22. Jean Noté

    Jean Noté
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1858-1922 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    opera singer
    Biography

    Jean-Baptiste Noté was a Belgian operatic baritone. He graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Ghent in 1884 with first prizes in singing and lyrical declamation. He made his professional opera debut in 1885 at the Opéra de Lille as Lord Enrico Ashton in Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. From 1887-1889 he was committed to the Théatre Royal in Antwerp. He then became a member of the Opéra National de Lyon where he had major success in the operas of Richard Wagner; especially the parts of Friedrich of Telramund in Lohengrin and Wolfram von Eschenbach in Tannhäuser. He was also admired at that theatre as Roland in Jules Massenet's Esclarmonde. He left Lyon in 1893 to join the roster of principal artists at the Paris Opera where he remained for the rest of his career. He made his debut in Paris in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto. He continued to perform with that company up until his death.

  23. Karel Miry

    Karel Miry
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1823-1889 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    musicologistconductorcomposerpolitician
    Biography

    Karel Miry was a Belgian composer. He was one of the first Belgian composers to write operas to librettos in Dutch and is known as the composer of the music for De Vlaamse Leeuw, the national anthem of Flanders, for which Hippoliet van Peene wrote the lyrics.

  24. Charel Cambré

    Charel Cambré
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1968-.. (age 56)
    Occupations
    comics artist
    Biography

    Charel Cambré is a Flemish Belgian comics artist and author.

  25. Geo Verbanck

    Geo Verbanck
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1881-1961 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    sculptormedalist
    Biography

    Geo Verbanck (28 February 1881 – 12 December 1961) was a Belgian sculptor and medalist.

  26. Anna De Weert

    Anna De Weert
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1867-1950 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    painterprose writeressayist
    Biography

    Anna De Weert, née Cogen; Anna Virginie Caroline De Weert was a Belgian painter. She would paint in the Luminist style.

  27. Max Pinckers

    Max Pinckers
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1988-.. (age 36)
    Occupations
    photographer
    Biography

    Max Pinckers is a Belgian photographer based in Brussels.

  28. Walter Hus

    Walter Hus
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    pianistmusiciancomposerperforming artistcreator
    Biography

    Walter Hus is a Belgian composer and musician.

  29. Florimond Van Duyse

    Florimond Van Duyse
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1843-1910 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    composerethnomusicologistwriterpoliticianlawyer
    Biography

    Florimond Van Duyse was a Belgian lawyer, composer and musicologist.