Pierre Paulus

Summary

Pierre Paulus (1881–1959), later Baron Pierre Paulus de Châtelet, was a Belgian expressionist painter. He is best known as the designer of the "bold rooster" (French: coq hardi) adopted on 3 July 1913 as the symbol of the Walloon Movement and today the flag of Wallonia.[1]


Pierre Paulus

de Châtelet
Portrait bust (1930) by Alphonse Darville
Born(1881-03-16)16 March 1881
Died17 August 1959(1959-08-17) (aged 78)
Brussels, Belgium
Notable workFlag of Wallonia
MovementExpressionism
RelativesPierre Binetter

Paulus gained notability during the Walloon Art Exposition of Charleroi in 1911 and, in the interwar period, he held several exhibitions in Europe and in the United States.

References edit

  • Delforge, Paul; Philippe Destatte; Micheline Libon (2001). Encyclopédie du mouvement wallon – Volume 3 : Lettres O – Z. Charleroi: Institut Jules Destrée. pp. 1244–1245. ISBN 978-2-87035-021-8.

Notes edit

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External links edit

  • (in French) Biography in "Cent Wallons du Siècle", Institut Jules Destrée, Charleroi, 1995
  • Short bio on Charleroi's Museum of fine arts website
  • Biography at the Dictionnaire des Wallons