Klaas Verplancke

Guido Gezelle wrote a poem about a whirligig beetle. The Brugean illustrator was inspired by this.

Klaas Verplancke

The Brugean illustrator Klaas Verplancke portrays Gezelle as a whirligig beetle, as a reference to Gezelle's poem. Verplancke is an author and a well-known Flemish illustrator. He got many awards for his illustrations at home and abroad.

Klaas Verplancke (Zwevegem, 21 June 1964)

Klaas Verplancke is a well-known Flemish illustrator. He studied publicity graphics and photography at the Sint-Lucas Institute in Ghent. After illustrating many books of Flemish and Dutch authors, Verplancke became an author himself in 1996. Jot, een tijdloze parabel was a breakthrough book. In 2010 his father-son story Appelmoes was published, which was awarded and translated into more than 14 languages in Flanders and internationally. In 2016 he wrote and illustrated De appel van Magritte, commissioned by MoMA, New York and it has now been published in more than 10 languages. His greatest works are collected in The First Klaasbook.

Klaas Verplancke held many exhibitions at home and abroad, many a times he was an international jury member and he is also a teacher, lecturer and curator. He received an impressive series of awards and nominations.

Klaas Verplancke is an art teacher at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.