Gustave Alhadeff was born in the Belgian Congo in 1940, he won his first award at the annual art show in Elisabethville, at age 13.

His formal art education began with Mr. Marcel Pire (Prix de Rome). He continued his studies at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, with Mr. Van Nesche in Cape Town, South African, (1956-1957).

Gustave was awarded a scholorship from the Art Academy to continue his studies with Mr. Creytens at the “Institut National Superieur des Beaux Arts”, Anvers, Belgium.  The following year he entered the class of Mr. Leon Devos at the Royal academy of Brussels, where he won first prize for portrait and still life paintings (1958).

During the International “World Fair 58” Brussels, the Gallerie Brueghel gave Alhadeff his first one man show.  He also participated in 1958, 1959 and 1960 at the “Salon de L’Art Libre” Paris, where he received the “Diplome D’Honneur” and also the “Arts-Sciences-Lettres” Bronze Medal.

The Maxwell Gallery in San Francisco gave Alhadeff his first one man show in America in 1963.

“Atelier 87” in Brussels was created by Gustave Alhadeff, to teach his techniques.

Gustave’s oil paintings, watercolors, lithographs and etchings are to be found in art collections around the world.

Institutional and Private Collections

Joseph Kasavubu, President of Zaire
Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel
President General Mobutu, Zaire
Jean Michael Jarre
James Michner
Captain Jacques Cousteau
Dr. Maurice Galante
Dr. Charles Huggins (Nobel prize in Medicine)
Pele (International Soccer Star of Brazil)
Karl Henise, NASA. Astronaut-Spacelab 2
Eric Herr (Attorney0 durban, South Africa
Houston Museum of Natural Science “Halley’s Comet At Spring Sunrise” (1986)
Shriner Hospital, San Francisco, California “Seascape” mural (1971)
Belgium, Palais des Beaux Arts, cat. #17 “At The Forest Edge” (1959)
Beligium, The Jewish Museum, Brussels “ The Morning Prayer”
Greek Consulate, Houstan, Texas “Socrates Street, The Old City of Rhodes, Greece”