Eric Itschert, “Nude Boy Swimming”, 2017, Drawing and Watercolor on Arches Paper
Eric Itschert was born in 1954 in Overijse, Belgium. While still in secondary school, Eric followed oil painting classes with the painter Georges Lambillotte. He studied at St Serge in Paris in the summer of 1973, Itschert obtained his certificate of architecture in 1978 at the Ecole Supérieure d’Architecture Saint-Luc in Brussels. He continued his painting studies with Bernard Frinking in 1986 and 1987; and during his time spent on Paros in the Cyclades in 1989, where he developed his technique of tempera painting.