AN ANTWERP-BASED GALLERY
Galerie Lowet de Wotrenge is managed by its director and owner, Tyr Baudouin. A historian by training, he is specialized in early modern cultural history. After a brief internship at Christie's Amsterdam, where he worked at the old master department, he joined the family art brokerage firm and transformed it into a gallery specialized in works by the old masters. Although Antwerp, with its rich cultural history, was always well represented in museums worldwide, where entire rooms are dedicated to the art produced by its most famous sons (and the occasional daughter), it did not have a gallery devoted to Flemish art yet. Galerie Lowet de Wotrenge has, since its inception, sought to fill that gap, bringing masterworks by Flemish artists back to the town where they were first created. Over the years, quite a few of these works have found a permanent home in fine Antwerp institutions such as the Rubenshuis, the Snijders/Rockoxhuis and the Museum Plantin-Moretus. Recently, Tyr Baudouin gifted an oil sketch by Cornelis Schut to the Rubenshuis, in honour of his grandparents Frans Baudouin, honorary curator of the museum, and Paula Smolders.
