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Léon Spilliaert

Léon Spilliaert (1881 - 1946) was active/lived in Belgium.  Leon Spilliaert is known for Symbolist landscape, figurative, florals and marine painting.

Following his marriage, the oeuvre of Belgian Symbolist Léon Spilliaert underwent a dramatic change from the more sombre work of his early years. Spilliaert married in 1916 and soon after became father to Madeleine. He left Ostend at the beginning of 1917 with the intention of joining the Pacifist movement in Switzerland, however, the events of the First World War prevented him from successfully relocating his young family to Geneva.

He then settled in Brussels but, inevitably, pined for the sea and coastal atmosphere of his native Ostend. After experimenting with lithography, he discovered a new medium of expression which delighted him – watercolour. He was immediately won over by the luminosity of this water-based paint which forced him to work quickly, manipulating the paint in the same way that he had worked the India ink of his earlier works.

Having abandoned his lexicon of dark and unsettling images, he began to delve into domestic matters, depicting family life a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3961 characters.]  Artist bio

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