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    La Libre Esthétique (French; "The Free Aesthetics") was an artistic society founded in 1893 in Brussels, Belgium to continue the efforts of the artists'...
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    (architecture). In 1893, the society of Les XX was transformed into "La Libre Esthétique". Les XX was founded on 28 October 1883 in Brussels and held annual...
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    1893 Maus advocated the dissolution of Les XX. In 1894 he founded La Libre Esthétique.[citation needed] The composer Poldowski (daughter of Henryk Wieniawski)...
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    Symbolism and Art Nouveau. Combaz exhibited with the group's successor, La Libre Esthétique starting from 1897 and designed many of the exhibition posters of...
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    and tramps. Van Mieghem had his first taste of real success at La Libre Esthétique in Brussels, where his pastels and drawings hung alongside works...
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    in promoting two fin de siècle Belgian art movements, Les XX and La Libre Esthétique. Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (Spring 2015). "Provincializing Paris. The...
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    Munich, 12. 08. 1894, p. 55 Catalogue de la cinquième exposition de La Libre Esthétique, La Libre Esthétique, Brussels, 1898 Le Salon 1900 Bruxelles,...
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    Gabriel Van Dievoet, Gustave Serrurier-Bovy, and a group known as La Libre Esthétique (Free Aesthetic). Arts and Crafts products were admired in Austria...
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    Paul Sérusier painted less Christian and more mystical scenes, particularly La Vision pros du torrent or The rendezvous of fairies (1897), showing a group...
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    his career as a painter in 1907 and had his first exhibition at La Libre Esthétique in 1910. During the First World War and thereafter, he worked a couple...
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    mature style. Bernard spent September 1887 at the coast, where he painted La Grandmère, a portrait of his grandmother. He continued talking with other...
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    critic Octave Maus, factotum of the artistic groups Les Vingt and La Libre Esthétique. Also as in France, several magazines were founded that served as...
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    exhibitions at one of George Petit's Galleries in 1897 and at the La Libre Esthétique in Brussels in 1898. He was keen to buy a country property where...
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  • La Libre Esthétique and Eenigen. In the latter he was a founder-member in 1902. Morren created light-flooded paintings, exhibited at the fairs La Libre...
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    his death in 1910. In 1897, he produced one of his most famous paintings, La Bohémienne endormie (The Sleeping Gypsy). In 1905, Rousseau's large jungle...
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    Exhibition poster for La Libre Esthétique, Designed by Georges Lemmen, 1910...
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    annual show. Denis showed his works in both salons, as well as the La Libre Esthétique salon in Brussels, a leading European showcase for avan-garde art...
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    1899, p. 9. M.O. Maus, Trente Années de lutte pour l'art, Les XX La Libre Esthétique 1884–1914, Brussels, 1926, p. 228. G. van Zype, 'Théo van Rysselberghe'...
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    Brussels during the early part of his career, such as Les XX and La Libre Esthétique. The reputations of many of his contemporaries, like Khnopff, Mellery...
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    the 8th and final Impressionist exhibition, later with Les XX and La Libre Esthétique in Brussels. In 1892, a group of Neo-Impressionist painters united...
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    parties joined to block a proposal to expand the suffrage. 29 October: La Libre Esthétique artistic society is founded by Octave Maus as a successor of Les...
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    as well as at the Salon des indépendants [fr] and the Salon de la Libre Esthétique in Brussels after 1894. That same year, he was able to indulge his...
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    resigned only a few years later in 1886. He was also a member of La Libre Esthétique and Kunst van Heden (Art for Today) in Antwerp. At about that time...
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    belonged to the avant-garde group Les XX and later exhibited at La Libre Esthétique. He travelled widely and painted views of Italy, Austria and France...
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    the Grand Palais. In 1914, his work was exhibited in the salon of La Libre Esthétique in Brussels, in honor of Darío de Regoyos, who had died the previous...
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  • Geïllustreerd En Artiskiek Weekblad (Amsterdam, 8 November 1913); L'Homme libre 1913/09/16 (A1,N135), p.3; Gallica BnF "Christie's sell Mashkov's painting...
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    Europe. He exhibited at the Salon in Paris in 1894, and at 1895's La Libre Esthétique in Brussels was awarded an honourable mention. In 1903 his painting...
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    contracts. Two years later, he took part in the last exhibition at La Libre Esthétique. By then, he was beginning to influence younger artists himself;...
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    her works at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts between 1905 and 1914 and at the Salon de la Libre Esthétique from 1906 to 1912. On the...
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    Musée du Luxembourg and he participated in an exhibition held by La Libre Esthétique. From 1896 to 1901, he continued to exhibit throughout Europe, winning...
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