Arthur Arthur Grosemans

Arthur Grosemans was born on February 8, 1906 in Brussels to parents who were tailors of men's clothing.

After the First World War, he worked as a draftsman and lithographer, and in the evenings, studied at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts (1919-1928 – Prof. J. Delville, E. Fabry) and the Antwerp Academy. From 1926 onwards, as a self-taught painter, he produced and exhibited powerful and understated realistic works before becoming a lecturer in photolithography at the Brussels Institute of Arts and Crafts (1937-1968).

Co-founder before the Second World War, he participated in the salons from 1941 to 1943, with other artists such as Anne Bonnet, Gaston Bertrand and Louis Van Lint who would found after the war.

From the early 1950s, Arthur Grosemans moved towards abstraction, playing with rhythmic geometric planes. From 1960 onwards, he limited himself solely to working with gouache.

Grosemans' genius lies in the purity and economy of his gesture. His compositions, whether delicate or powerful, are always subtle, intuitive, light, and musical.

Danielle Gillemon, excerpt from the newspaper “Le Soir", June 1995.

He passed away in Brussels on June 15, 1995.