Anna De Weert


Anna De Weert, née Cogen; Anna Virginie Caroline De Weert was a Belgian painter.

Life

Weert was born in Ghent as Anna Virginie Caroline Cogen. Her grandfather was Karel Lodewijk Ledeganck and her uncles, Alphons and Felix Cogen, were painters.
In the 1890s she was a private student of the Belgian painter Emile Claus. She and her husband spent summers with him in the 1890s.
Anna Cogen was a productive artist and had a long association with the Cercle Artistique et Littéraire in her home town after she first exhibited there in 1895. She died in Ghent in 1950.