Eugene Laermans (1864 - 1940)

Eugène Laermans

Laermans was born on October 22 in the suburb of Brussel,Sint-Jans-Molenbeek in 1864.At age eleven was Laermans as a result of meningitis almost deaf and dumb.In 1887 he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussel.In 1922 he became a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgian for Sciences and Arts.Laermans was in his time one of the leading figures of Belgian art.Painter,draughtsman of portraits,people in landscapes,nudes religious compositions,strikes,workpeople,marines,villageviews in the Realist,Impressionist,Post-Impressionist and Symbolic style.From 1924 found him still the blindness which he totally lonely.In 1927,the year his mother died,granted King Albert I gave him the title of Baron.Eugène Laermans died on February 22 in 1940 in Brussel totally forgotten.Work in museum:Brussel,Paris,Boekarest,Gent,Antwerpen,Deurle,Leuven,St-Niklaas,Elsene.