Georges Lemmen: Factories on the Thames – c1892 Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands Many European artists came to London in the late 19th and early Twentieth centuries, in part attracted to the atmospheric conditions which prevailed at the time. The […]
Georges Lemmen: The Two Sisters or The Serruys Sisters – 1894 Indianapolis Museum of Art The Serruys family lived in the Belgian town of Menin (now forever associated with the Great War). Edmond Serruys was a wealthy textile mill owner. […]
Georges Lemmen The son of a Brussels architect, Lemmen’s output was at first influenced by the Belgian symbolists, primarily Fernand Khnopff and James Ensor but later, having seen Georges Seurat’s work exhibited at Les XX he began to paint in […]