Pierre Paulus (1881–1959), later Baron Pierre Paulus de Châtelet, was a Belgian expressionist painter. He is best known as the designer of the "bold rooster" (French: coq hardi) adopted on 3 July 1913 as the symbol of the Walloon Movement and today the flag of Wallonia.[1]
Pierre Paulus de Châtelet | |
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 Portrait bust (1930) by Alphonse Darville | |
| Born | 16 March 1881 |
| Died | 17 August 1959 (aged 78) Brussels, Belgium |
| Notable work | Flag of Wallonia |
| Movement | Expressionism |
| Relatives | Pierre Binetter |
Paulus gained notability during the Walloon Art Exposition of Charleroi in 1911 and, in the interwar period, he held several exhibitions in Europe and in the United States.
References edit
- Delforge, Paul; Philippe Destatte; Micheline Libon (2001). Encyclopédie du mouvement wallon – Volume 3 : Lettres O – Z. Charleroi: Institut Jules Destrée. pp. 1244–1245. ISBN 978-2-87035-021-8.
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External links edit
- (in French) Biography in "Cent Wallons du Siècle", Institut Jules Destrée, Charleroi, 1995
- Short bio on Charleroi's Museum of fine arts website
- Biography at the Dictionnaire des Wallons
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