{"title":"Emile Van Dorenmuseum x Kunstsokken","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmile Van Doren (1865-1949) came to Genk as a young painter from Brussels and never left. He painted one landscape, over and over: the heath, fens and sand dunes of the Kempen. And he did so while watching it disappear – in 1901 coal was discovered beneath Belgian Limburg. Van Doren took a seat on the Royal Commission for Monuments and Landscapes and became an advocate for the landscape he painted. A good part of it is now Hoge Kempen National Park.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree works from the collection of the Emile Van Dorenmuseum in Genk – his own villa and studio – are now knitted into organic cotton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited edition:\u003c\/strong\u003e 700 pairs per design. 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From then on he painted just one subject: the heath, fens and sand dunes around Genk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe translated the canvas into knitted stitches: a moss-green foot for the grass, a light blue cuff for the sky, and in between the blossoming trees with the chickens beneath them. Knitted in, not printed, right down to the loose white feathers in the grass – the colours are part of the sock itself, so they don't fade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Verger en fleurs' · oil on canvas, 70 × 50.5 cm · collection Emile Van Dorenmuseum, Genk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA one-time run of 700 pairs. 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Van Doren painted that moment on a boggy heath: a dark palette, royal-blue strokes, pale blue pools reflecting the light, and above them a bank of clouds set down in rough, sketchy strokes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVan Doren was no marginal figure. In 1892 he won the Prix Donnay, the landscape prize of the Brussels Academy, co-founded the Société Royale des Beaux-Arts alongside Constantin Meunier and Fernand Khnopff, and enjoyed serious royal admiration. Leopold II bought his work early on, according to the museum Albert I and Queen Elisabeth never missed one of his exhibitions, and King Baudouin later hung a Van Doren in his study in Opgrimbie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the sock, the canvas became a camel-brown foot for the peaty ground, a light blue cuff for the sky, and in between the pools, the golden catkins and the dark shrubs. Knitted in, not printed – the colours are part of the sock itself, so they don't fade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'La fleurison de myrica' · oil on canvas, 101.5 × 70.5 cm · collection Emile Van Dorenmuseum, Genk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA one-time run of 700 pairs. 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Beyond that, only sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn August 1901, coal was discovered beneath Belgian Limburg. The quiet farming village Van Doren had moved to would grow within a few decades into what the museum calls 'the third industrial hub of Flanders'. He watched it happen – and he did more than keep painting. He took a seat on the Royal Commission for Monuments and Landscapes and became an active advocate for the landscape he painted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat story doesn't end with 'and then it was gone'. A good part of that heath is protected today as Hoge Kempen National Park, and the museum credits that protection in part to painters like Van Doren, who were the first to show what it was worth. He painted it because he saw it disappearing – and that painting is part of the reason a piece of it is still there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the sock, the canvas became an ochre-yellow foot for the sand and dry heath, a light blue cuff for the sky, and in between the sandy road with the cart and the pine. Knitted in, not printed – the colours are part of the sock itself, so they don't fade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Landkar op weg' · oil on canvas, 76.5 × 38 cm · collection Emile Van Dorenmuseum, Genk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA one-time run of 700 pairs. 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And 'Country Road with Horse and Cart', the most expansive of the three: a sandy road across open heath, a cart in the distance, and beyond that only sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmile Van Doren (Brussels 1865 – Genk 1949) came to Genk in the early 1890s and never left. He painted one landscape, over and over – and he did it while watching it disappear. In 1901, coal was discovered beneath Belgian Limburg. Van Doren took a seat on the Royal Commission for Monuments and Landscapes and became an advocate for the heath he painted. A good part of it is Hoge Kempen National Park today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTogether, the three pairs tell that story in the order he saw it: spring in the orchard, the bloom on the heath, and the road running straight through it. 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