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Fernand Verhaegen
Fernand Verhaegen (1883-1975) was a Belgian painter and etcher. He was born in Marchienne-au-Pont , near Charleroi, in 1883. He took courses at the Academy for Fine Arts of Brussels from 1900 to 1906 and there became friends with Rik Wouters and Edgard Tytgat . After graduation he exhibited at many places in Belgium and abroad (Biennale of Venise in 1920 and 1922). His style gradually evolved from impressionnism , Belgian luminism to a synthetic form of capturing the reality. In his older days, he came back to a personnal form of impressionnism. He specialized in painting the Walloon folklore (Carnival of Binche -he was very soon recognised as the painter of "the Gilles of Binche"-, Doudou of Mons, Giants of Ath, Chinelles of Fosses, tChaudia of Leernes, Pasqueye,etc...). He also created a series of etches devoted to the folklore in Wallonia. He died in Montignies-le-Tilleul 1975. Today his works are many different museums of Belgium and abroad (Brussels, Mons, Charleroi, Ixelles, Liège, Grenoble, etc...).
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