{"id":51,"date":"2026-04-21T12:31:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wttrwulghe.com\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:31:45","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wttrwulghe.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biography:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xavier Wttrwulghe is an award-winning and highly regarded painter, sculptor, and photographer from Belgium. Surreal portraits are the central theme of his work. He is almost always hidden behind glasses. Xavier Wttrwulghe says that \u00ab\u00a0art has no limits,\u00a0\u00bb and he creates unique and memorable pieces by mixing different materials. Xavier Wttrwulghe was born in 1976 in Belgium, where he graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. Over the years, he has exhibited nationally and internationally, including in France, Monaco, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Spain, and his works are now found in private collections worldwide. One of his works was acquired from a private collection by the Mus\u00e9e des Franciscaines in Deauville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prizes and Awards:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Winner of the Sony Portrait Competition, July 2014<br>3rd place for Belgium in the Sony International Competition, judged by 8 panels, including 2 panels from the international magazine \u00ab\u00a0National Geographic\u00a0\u00bb.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Silver Award 2018, Art Majeur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Collections:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Private collection at the Mus\u00e9e des Franciscaines in Deauville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Collections at the Kunsthalle Messmer Museum, Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Private collections worldwide: United States, Monaco, Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, New Caledonia, Italy, Singapore, Portugal, Hungary\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"846\" height=\"910\" src=\"http:\/\/wttrwulghe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_6135.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wttrwulghe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_6135.jpg 846w, https:\/\/wttrwulghe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_6135-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/wttrwulghe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_6135-768x826.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Xavier Wttrwulghe is an award-winning and highly regarded painter, sculptor, and photographer from Belgium. Surreal portraits are the central theme of his work. He is almost always hidden behind glasses. Xavier Wttrwulghe says that \u00ab\u00a0art has no limits,\u00a0\u00bb and he creates unique and memorable pieces by mixing different materials. Xavier Wttrwulghe was born in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wttrwulghe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wttrwulghe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wttrwulghe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wttrwulghe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wttrwulghe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wttrwulghe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/wttrwulghe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wttrwulghe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}