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Henry de Groux - Groep roofvogels

Groep roofvogels (1893)

Henry de Groux (Belgian, 1867-1930)
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Henry de Groux

Henry de Groux was a Belgian Symbolist painter, 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. 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.

De Groux was born in Brussels. He was the son of the painter and engraver Charles 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 Nuncques for a time in the 1880s.

De Groux subsequently moved to Paris, where he befriended Émile Zola. During the social unrest resulting from the Dreyfus affair, de Groux acted as one of Zola's bodyguards. In Paris he met other artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Whistler, Gauguin, Ensor, Rodin and Debussy. He also frequented many writers, including his future son-in-law Emile Baumann, Stéphane Mallarmé, Guillaume Apollinaire, Oscar Wilde, Léon Bloy – with whom he maintained a fusional friendship – Verlaine, Zola, Heredia, Gide, Milosz, Remy de Gourmont and Joris-Karl Huysmans.

Henri de Groux exhibited all over Europe at the salons of Paris, Brussels, Ostend, Spa, Amsterdam, London and Florence. In the latter places he was interned in a psychiatric hospital. He escaped from it and walked all the way to back to Marseille.

He illustrated various literary works. He contributed lithographs to L'Estampe originale (1893) and L'Épreuve (1895).

De Groux had a reputation of a bohemian living a wild and disorderly life. In the preamble of Léon Bloy's book La Femme pauvre (The Poor Woman) de Groux is described as follows: With the exception of our great painter Henry de Groux, who has descended as deeply as you and as heartily into my black pit? (La Part Commune Edition, 1897).

His elder daughter Elisabeth de Groux was an engraver. She married Emile Baumann who after his father in law's death wrote a revealing biography titled The terrible life of Henry de Groux.

De Groux died in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode on 12 January 1930.

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Morituri

Morituri (1898)

Henry de Groux (Belgian, 1867-1930)
The Vintages!; Place of Devestation

The Vintages!; Place of Devestation (1894)

Henry de Groux (Belgian, 1867-1930)
Portrait of Emma Lambotte

Portrait of Emma Lambotte (1907)

Henry de Groux (Belgian, 1867-1930)
Doodgraver op een slagveld

Doodgraver op een slagveld (1877 - 1930)

Henry de Groux (Belgian, 1867-1930)
Landschap met leeuw en de heilige Hieronymus met boek

Landschap met leeuw en de heilige Hieronymus met boek (1877 - 1930)

Henry de Groux (Belgian, 1867-1930)
Christus aan het kruis omringd door figuren en dieren met op de achtergrond de Eiffeltoren

Christus aan het kruis omringd door figuren en dieren met op de achtergrond de Eiffeltoren (1877 - 1930)

Henry de Groux (Belgian, 1867-1930)
Slagveld met lichamen op een hoop

Slagveld met lichamen op een hoop (c. 1890 - c. 1893)

Henry de Groux (Belgian, 1867-1930)
Alexandre pleurant Darius

Alexandre pleurant Darius (1892)

Henry de Groux (Belgian, 1867-1930)
Exposition de l’oeuvre de guerre de Henry de Groux

Exposition de l’oeuvre de guerre de Henry de Groux (1916)

Henry de Groux (Belgian, 1867-1930)
Christ Among His Tormentors

Christ Among His Tormentors (1894–1898)

Henry de Groux (Belgian, 1867-1930)
Menigte aan de rand van een verwoeste stad

Menigte aan de rand van een verwoeste stad (1916)

Henry de Groux (Belgian, 1867-1930)
Twee naakte figuren met elkaar in strijd

Twee naakte figuren met elkaar in strijd (1877 - 1930)

Henry de Groux (Belgian, 1867-1930)
Portret van man met baard

Portret van man met baard (1895)

Henry de Groux (Belgian, 1867-1930)
Portret van James Ensor

Portret van James Ensor (1907)

Henry de Groux (Belgian, 1867-1930)
Gipsies

Gipsies

Henry de Groux (Belgian, 1867-1930)
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