Léon Huygens
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Leon Huygens sketching in the ruins of Nieuwpoort during the First World War.
Léon Huygens (1876–1919) was a Belgian painter.
Huygens was born in Oudergem, Brussels, and attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He specialised in landscapes, particularly of the Sonian Forest to the south of Oudergem and the coast at Nieuwpoort.
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Sketch of Nieuwpoort during the First World War.
He volunteered for the Belgian army during the First World War, and was assigned as a war artist. He died in Paris in 1919.
External links
- (Dutch) Biography at arto.be
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