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Anna Staritsky Documented profileBelgium
A Belgian or Russian-Belgian artist of Ukrainian origin, Ania Staritsky moves across several fields of artistic practice: after painting figurative portraits in Brussels, she breaks…
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Armand Henrion Documented profileBelgium · France
Belgian painter Armand François Joseph Henrion was born in Liège on 30 May 1875 and is listed as having died in 1958. After exhibiting in Belgian salons, he settled in Paris and took…
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Bernard Stern Documented profileBelgium · France
Bernard Stern is listed as a painter who lived from 1920 to 2002 and, according to Artpeers, lived and worked in London, New York and France. Artpeers mentions works exhibited at, am…
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Bram Bogart Documented profileBelgium · Netherlands
Bram Bogart, the artist name of Abraham van den Boogaart, was born in Delft in 1921. A Dutch painter who became Belgian, he was naturalised as a Belgian citizen in 1969 and died in 2…
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Charles Kvapil Documented profileBelgium
Charles Kvapil’s career first took shape between Belgium and Germany. After settling in Belgium, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp; his first works were exhibited at the…
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Charles Van Meer Documented profileBelgium
Charles Van Meer, a Belgian painter born in Audregnies on 3 April 1819 and who died in Schaerbeek on 31 October 1865, is documented through genre scenes and his participation in the…
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Cornelius Van Leemputten Documented profileBelgium
The landscapes of Corneille Van Leemputten combine the countryside of Brabant and the Campine with scenes of herds and poultry. His compositions often feature a low horizon, vegetati…
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Egide Linnig Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter Égide Linnig, born in Antwerp in 1821, combined an oeuvre dominated by seascapes and coastal landscapes with an independent printmaking practice. His etchings, de…
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Emile Deckers Documented profileBelgium
Trained at the Académie des beaux-arts in Liège, then in Paris under Carolus Duran and Évariste Carpentier, Émile Deckers received the first prize for anatomy and the first prize for…
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Englebert Van Anderlecht Documented profileBelgium
After exhibiting a few figurative works in 1940, Englebert Van Anderlecht devoted ten years to the study of painting before turning to abstract art. The biographical note then descri…
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Eugène Verboeckhoven Documented profileBelgium
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven, also known as Eugène Verboeckhoven, develops a body of work devoted primarily to animal painting and animated landscapes. He is first trained by his fath…
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Franz Courtens Documented profileBelgium
Franz Courtens, also known as Frans Courtens, was a Belgian painter born in Termonde in 1854 and died in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode in 1943. His work, associated with Belgian Impressionis…
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Gustave Singier Documented profileBelgium · France
Gustave Singier (1909–1984), described as a non-figurative painter, printmaker and lithographer, worked across several creative fields. His work also includes designs for tapestries,…
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Guy Vandenbranden Documented profileBelgium
Belgian painter, sculptor, draughtsman and graphic artist Guy Vandenbranden also works with collage. His career is marked by a transition from figuration to abstraction, followed by…
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Henri Decaisne Documented profileBelgium
Henri de Caisne, a Belgian painter born in Brussels in 1799 and died in Paris in 1852, practised history painting, genre painting and portraiture. After receiving the prize for the a…
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Henri Michaux Documented profileBelgium · France
Henri Michaux, a poet, writer and painter born in Namur and who died in Paris, pursued writing and the graphic arts in parallel: he took an interest in painting as early as 1925, whi…
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Henry Schouten Documented profileBelgium
A painter of landscapes and, above all, animals, Henri Schouten depicts cattle, sheep, horses, poultry and dogs, as well as animals in the fields. He exhibits at the art society L’Un…
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Isidore Verheyden Documented profileBelgium
A Belgian painter of landscapes, portraits and still lifes, Isidore Verheyden began his artistic training in Brussels within an academic tradition before devoting himself to plein-ai…
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James Ensor Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter James Ensor, associated with the avant-garde of the early 20th century, made the mask a recurring motif, which appeared in his work in 1883 with Les Masques scand…
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Jean Delville Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter Jean Delville, born in Leuven in 1867 as Jean Libert, situated his practice within Symbolism while extending it through poetry, writing and art theory. He trained…
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Jean-Michel Folon Documented profileBelgium
From ink drawings to illustrated books, television title sequences and works in bronze, stained glass or ceramics, Jean-Michel Folon worked across a range of media. His career thus b…
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Josef Ongenae Documented profileBelgium · Netherlands
Josef Ongenae (1921–1993) is identified as a Belgian visual artist. An untitled work from 1954 documents his practice: this square oil on panel measures 83 × 83 cm and bears a signat…
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Léon Herbo Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter Léon Herbo, born in Templeuve and died in Ixelles, moved from genre scenes and historical subjects to portraiture, which occupies a central place in his work. He…
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Léon Spilliaert Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter, draughtsman, illustrator and lithographer Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946) developed a body of work in which night, empty expanses and self-portraiture occupy a centr…
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Luc Tuymans Documented profileBelgium
Born in 1958 in Mortsel, Belgium, Luc Tuymans lives and works in Antwerp. His figurative paintings generally take pre-existing images as their starting point, including photographs a…
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Marc Eemans Documented profileBelgium
During this period, he exhibits alongside René Magritte and Salvador Dalí. The biographical entry consulted characterizes his later orientation as marked by a “certain symbolic mysti…
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Marcel Broodthaers Documented profileBelgium
Belgian visual artist Marcel Broodthaers, born in 1924 and died in 1976, initially devoted a significant part of his life to poetry: he worked mainly as a poet until 1963, before tur…
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Marcel-Louis Baugniet Documented profileBelgium
A painter, decorator, furniture designer and art theorist, Marcel-Louis Baugniet developed a practice spanning the visual and applied arts. Born in Liège in 1896 and deceased in Brus…
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Martha Grunenwaldt Documented profileBelgium
Martha Grünenwaldt (1910–2008), a Belgian artist, began drawing when she was over seventy: this late entry into artistic practice is a distinctive landmark in her career. The daughte…
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Paul Daxhelet Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter and printmaker Paul Daxhelet was born and died in Liège; he also practised drawing and watercolour. Trained at the Académie des beaux-arts de Liège, he studied un…
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Paul de Lassence Documented profileBelgium
Paul de Lassence, also known as Paul Haerynck and Paul Lassence, trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels before spending nearly a year in London studying under Frank Br…
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Paul Delvaux Documented profileBelgium
Paul Delvaux’s universe unfolds in enigmatic scenes in which female figures, clothed men, railway stations and classical architecture recur; the figures and settings alike seem suspe…
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Paul Duhem Documented profileBelgium
Born in Blandain in 1919 and died in Ellignies-Sainte-Anne in 1999, Paul Duhem developed a body of work organised in series, in which houses and portraits recur in particular. In 199…
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Pol Bury Documented profileBelgium · France
Pol Bury (1922–2005), a Belgian artist, practised painting and sculpture, and created jewellery. A watercolour entitled Untitled, dated 1950, measures 465 × 290 mm; it is signed and…
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Pol Mara Documented profileBelgium
Pol Mara, the artist’s name of Belgian painter Léopold Leysen, born in Antwerp in 1920, developed a career marked by a shift from Surrealism to lyrical abstraction, followed by the i…
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Raoul Ubac Documented profileBelgium · France
Active in photography, painting and sculpture, Raoul Ubac (1910–1985) developed a body of work documented by works and projects across these different fields. After studying at the A…
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Rémy Cogghe Documented profileBelgium
Trained in drawing and painting at the academic schools in Roubaix under Constantin Mils, Rémy Cogghe pursued a career that linked his training in Roubaix with stays in several citie…
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René Magritte Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian artist René Magritte (1898–1967), associated with Surrealism, transforms familiar objects into unusual and ambiguous scenes. Unexpected juxtapositions, shifts in scale an…
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Robert Charles Gustave Laurens Mols Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter, engraver and draughtsman Robert Mols devoted a significant part of his work to depicting cities and ports, while also exploring flowers and still lifes. He left…
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Walter Leblanc Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian artist Walter Leblanc, born in Antwerp in 1932 and deceased in Silly in 1986, developed a body of work in which material and torsion became essential means of renewing pa…
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Wout Vercammen Documented profileBelgium
Wout Vercammen (1938–2018) is identified as an artist in the available documents. The Maurice Verbaet Center includes him in its selection of artists. A work attributed to Vercammen,…
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GND / Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / lobid · CC0 · RKDartists / RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History · ODC-BY 1.0 · 11.10.2026
ICCD / Ministero della Cultura — Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali · CC-BY 4.0 · National Gallery of Art, Washington / The Museum of Modern Art, New York / The Cleveland Museum of Art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) · Open Access · CC0 · 12.10.2026