Pingeot, Anne. Paris-Bruxelles, Bruxelles-Paris: réalism, impressionnisme, symbolisme, art nouveau : les relations artistiques entre la France et la Belgique 1848-1914. Exhibition catalogue. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1997 (in French)
Léon Fréderic
Born: Brussels, 26 August 1856
Died: Schaarbeek, 27 January 1940
Nationality: Belgian
Died: Schaarbeek, 27 January 1940
Nationality: Belgian
Studies:
with Jules Vankeirsbilck and Ernest Slingeneyer at Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts (Brussels); with Jean-François Portaels
Career:
1878 – debuts at Triennial Salon in Brussels; joins L’Essor, a group of Realist painters
1882 – Chalk Sellers wins medal at Triennial Salon
1883 – moves to the village of Nafraiture in the Ardennes
1889 – moves to Schaarbeek
1893 – exhibits with Les XX in Brussels
1896 – joins the Art Idealiste group
Travels
Italy (1878); England and Germany (1889)
Important Artworks:
The Ages of the Worker (triptych), 1895-97 (Musée d’Orsay, Paris)
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