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(b Brussels, 17 April 1867; d Brussels, 14 Nov 1931). Belgian painter. He began his career as an apprentice and lithographic draughtsman in a printing house while taking evening classes at the art school in Saint Josse, Brussels, and attending the Académie Libre L’Effort. He took part in the activities of the Groupe du Rouge-Cloître, which included the Belgian painters Alfred Bastien (1873–1947) and Frans Smeers (1873–1960). He visited Paris briefly in 1890 and from ... (view more)

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(b Brussels, 17 April 1867; d Brussels, 14 Nov 1931). Belgian painter. He began his career as an apprentice and lithographic draughtsman in a printing house while taking evening classes at the art school in Saint Josse, Brussels, and attending the Académie Libre L’Effort. He took part in the activities of the Groupe du Rouge-Cloître, which included the Belgian painters Alfred Bastien (1873–1947) and Frans Smeers (1873–1960). He visited Paris briefly in 1890 and from 1895 to 1902 lived with his wife and Louis Thévenet at Nieuwpoort, where he painted solidly constructed pictures in sombre colours such as Burial at Nieuwpoort (1901; Brussels, Mus. A. Mod.), taking as his subject the sea or the people who made their living from it.  (hide)

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