Early Life, Family and Training Alice Frey was born on 25 June 1895 in Antwerp, Belgium. She grew up in a household with two other children, part of a family of three. Before her life became defined by the canvas, she learned the practical skills of a dressmaker. This trade was a significant part of her early years, and she eventually shared this knowledge with others by working as a school teacher. Her path toward becoming a painter began when she enrolled as a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. It was within those studio walls that she dedicated herself to the study of drawing…
A chart of Alice Frey's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.