Henry de groux biography sample

Related e. Wikipedia Wiktionary Shop. Henry de Groux in Brussels - in Marseilles was a Belgian Symbolist painter , sculptor and lithographer. His painting Christ aux Outrages , widely described as his masterwork, depicted Jesus being attacked by a mob. Later in life, he produced many works depicting the horrors of the First World War.

De Groux was a member of les XX , but was expelled when he refused to have his works displayed in the same gallery as Vincent van Gogh. He subsequently moved to Paris , where he befriended Emile Zola ; during the social unrest resulting from the Dreyfus affair , de Groux acted as one of Zola's bodyguards. As well, de Groux was a fervent diarist ; beginning in , he produced 18 volumes detailing the life of a European artist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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In , his descendants donated these volumes to the Institut national d'histoire de l'art ; selected excerpts were published in Jump to: navigation , search. Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Henry de Groux" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License ; or on research by Jahsonic.

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