Antoine “Anto” Carte (8 December 1886 – 15 February 1954) was a Belgian painter.
Antoine Carto was born in Mons in 1886. His dad was a joiner. Anto Carte was first apprenticed to François Depooter, an interior painter, and later studied art at the academies of Mons and Brussels, and in Paris. He started keen in a Symbolist style, but after the First World War became a Flemish Expressionist painter in the style of the painters of the outfit of Sint-Martens-Latem once Gustave Van de Woestijne. In 1917 he had his first exposition, of illustrations he made for a function by Emile Verhaeren. He exposed together taking into consideration the Flemish Expressionists at the 1923 Salon d’Automne in Paris. He had a solo exhibition in Pittsburgh, at the Carnegie Institute, in 1924, where whatever 60 paintings were sold. Retrospective exhibitions at the Museum of Mons were organised in 1949 and in 1995.
Later in his career, he intended many posters and stained glass windows, including in 1927 the windows for a additional building at the University of Mons-Hainaut. He also meant a 50 Belgian Francs banknote.
In 1928, he founded the art bureau Groupe Nervia together next Louis Buisseret. From 1932 on, he was a professor at the La Cambre bookish and at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
He lived most of his career in Braine-le-Château, and died in Ixelles in 1954.
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