Maurice Pirenne - Artist Info

About Maurice Pirenne

  • Biography

    Maurice Pirenne was born in 1872 in Verviers, and died there in 1968. He was the brother of historian Henri Pirenne. He was largely self-taught.

    In the last twenty years of his life, he became "the painter of simple objects, isolated, designed this as signs of human loneliness" (Arto).

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