Romain Malfliet - Antwerp - Old Marina

Etching, of the old marina on the Left Bank, in Antwerp. View of the City across the stream.
Malfliet is best known as an etcher of picturesque corners in the Waasland, Antwerp and other Flemish villages and towns. His work is kept in the print rooms of Antwerp, Brussels, Dendermonde and Sint-Niklaas. In 1979 Willem Persoon published a book about his personal friend under the title Romain Malfliet en het land van Waas, with 199 images of Malfliet's etchings. The second book, Antwerp Romain Malfliet, followed in 1980. From 1934 to 1975, Romain Malfliet was a drawing teacher at the academies in Hemiksem, Temse and from 1951 at the Municipal Academy of Fine Arts in Sint-Niklaas. He was also a member of the Pictura circle and the Koninklijke Wase Kunstkring. He died in 2006 at the age of 96.