Louis Lievin Theophile Clesse

An extremely able painter of Impressionist landscapes, Louis Clesse is
finally receiving the attention that his work deserves after the publication of a
monograph on his life and works. He was born in Ixelles in 1889 and after a
brief period studying art at the Ixelles Academy he joined the atelier of Paul
Hermanus. From 1907 he started exhibiting his work at the principal Belgian
Salons and was soon gaining a reputation as a painter of note. He chose to
depict the countryside around Brussels for much of his work as well as
traveling to northern France. Stylistically his paintings owe much to the
influences of Isidor Verheyden and Franz Courtens although his technique
has a slightly freer approach.