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Belgian-born artist Henry de Groux (II), a significant member of the Belgian avant-garde group.
Henry de Groux
Belgian Symbolist painter, sculptor and lithographer
Henry de Groux (15 September 1866 – 12 January 1930)[1] was a BelgianSymbolistpainter, sculptor and lithographer.
His 1889 painting Christ attacked by a mob made when he was only 22 years old established his reputation as an innovative Symbolist painter and ensured his admission to the progressive artistic circles in Brussels.[2] He spent most of his active career in Paris.
He produced many works depicting the horrors of the First World War in the latter part of his career.
Life
De Groux was born in Brussels.[1] He was the son of the painter and engraver Charles de Groux.
The life of Henry de Groux.Like his father, he trained at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Henry was elected a member of Les XX in 1886, but was expelled in 1890 when he refused to have his works displayed in the same gallery as Vincent van Gogh.
He shared a studio with the Belgian painter William Degouve de Nun