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Henri Cassiers (1858-1944). Haarlemmersluis and Lutheran church in Amsterdam.
Painter of landscapes, marines, cityscapes and genre scenes. Lithographer, etcher and illustrator. His preference is for watercolor and he reaches the highest peak in it; J. Ensor calls him the Prince of the Belgian watercolourists. Undertook numerous trips to most Western European countries with a rich artistic harvest. However, the area of the Zuiderzee has his preference. You can notice this in the Zeeland traditional costume in this watercolor.
From 1905 he successfully combines watercolor and gouache, developing a very personal style and invoice. In his lifetime, however, he will mainly be a furore as a decorative artist and as the creator of a very large number of lithographic posters, postcards and wall plates, for example for the Dietrich publishing house. President of the Royal Belgian Society of Watercolorists (1907-38).