Jef Dutilleux

Belgian 1876 - 1960
A post-impressionist painter. Mainly of landscape, beach town and harbour scenes. During the German occupation of Belgium in the First World War, Dutilleux sought refuge in Westhoek in the northern part of French Flanders. After the war he documented the destruction before returning to his hometown. Two of his works from this period Ecluse de Chasse - crique de Nieuwendamme and Yser are part of the collections of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Yser was commissioned in 1919 and acquired by the museums in 1920.