Delfosse Joseph

Joseph Delfosse was a Belgian artist, born in Bellaire/Liège in 1888 and died in Bellaire/Liège in 1971. He was a painter, draftsman, watercolorist and engraver. He was a pupil of the painter E. Masson and followed further training at the Academy in Liège, under the supervision of A. De Witte and F. Maréchal. He made his first etchings in 1919. From 1919 to 1921 he lived in France, where he worked in Reims, among other places. In 1926 he stayed in Paris, where he participated in the Salons and in 1929 he returned to Belgium. He was a member of the Cercle des Beaux-Arts in Liège and exhibited with them between 1923 and 1954. In 1929 he became a graphic teacher at Sint-Lucas in Liège. Joseph Delfosse won the prize for graphic art from the province of Liège in 1949. As a painter he realized winter, industrial and river landscapes and forest views; as an etcher cityscapes of Jupille and Reims. We can find his work in the Musée de l'Art Wallon and in the Prentenkabinet in Liège. (Piron)