Clesse Louis

Louis Clesse was a Belgian artist born in Ixelles in 1889 and died there in 1961. He was a painter and etcher. He studied at the Academy in Ixelles. He preferred realistic and impressionistic landscapes, still lifes, harbor views and portraits. He worked in Auderghem in the summer and from 1932 he regularly stayed in Oudenburg from where he started exploring and painting the coast, the harbor, the countryside, the villages and Bruges. (PIRON)