Paul Haesaerts
Paul Haesaerts (15 February 1901 – 31 January 1974) was a multi talented Belgian artist. Paul Haesaerts was born as Pauwel Helena Alfons Haesaerts, son of Benjamin Adolf Jan Baptist Haesaerts and Emma Philomena Spillemaeckers. He was a member of both Les Compagnons de l'Art and La Jeune Peinture Belge, both artistic organisations based in Belgium.
Paul Haesaerts
- Name
- Paul Haesaerts
- Born
- 15 February 1901
- Birthplace
- Boom, Belgium
- Died
- 31 January 1974
- Place of death
- Brussels, Belgium
- Occupation
- architect, filmmaker, etcher, painter, screenwriter, illustrator
- Nationality
- Belgium
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Paul Haesaerts (15 February 1901 – 31 January 1974) was a multi talented Belgian artist. Paul Haesaerts was born as Pauwel Helena Alfons Haesaerts, son of Benjamin Adolf Jan Baptist Haesaerts and Emma Philomena Spillemaeckers. He was a member of both Les Compagnons de l'Art and La Jeune Peinture Belge, both artistic organisations based in Belgium.
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In 1930 he founded the journal Les Beaux-Arts, with his brother Luc Haesaerts. Haesaerts began exploring how he could present art criticism through the medium of film after the end of World War II. He released his first film in 1948. Focused on artist Peter Paul Rubens, Haesaerts created it in collaboration with Henri Storck. His short film Visit to Picasso (1949) was awarded at the New York Film Festival in 1950 and was nominated for the BAFTA award for best documentary in 1951.
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• Name — Paul Haesaerts • Birth Name — Paul Haesaerts • Born — 15 February 1901 • Birthplace — Boom, Belgium • Died — 31 January 1974 • Place of death — Brussels, Belgium • Other Names — Paul Haesaerts • Occupation — architect, filmmaker, etcher, painter, screenwriter, illustrator
Filmography
Filmography
• "Rubens" (1948) • Van Renoir tot Picasso (1948, From Renoir to Picasso, De Renoir a Picasso) • Visit to Picasso (1949)
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Paul Haesaerts is recorded as painter, architect, screenwriter, director and producer.
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1901
Paul Haesaerts was born in 1901 at Boom.
1974
Paul Haesaerts died in 1974 at Brussels.
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Quatre Peintres Belges au Travail: Paul Haesaerts’s Film on Edgar Tytgat, Albert Dasnoy, Jean Brusselmans and Paul Delvaux (1952), Arts, 2022
Marcel Otte, Vasile Chirica, Paul Haesaerts (sous la direction), L’aurignacien et le Gravettien de Mitoc-Malu Galben (Moldavie, Roumanie), Arheologia Moldovei, 2016
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