Émile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren was a Belgian poet and art critic who wrote in the French language. He was one of the founders of the school of Symbolism and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature on six occasions.
Portrait of Verhaeren by Théo van Rysselberghe
Image: Emile Verhaeren's signature
Émile Verhaeren in 1910
Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig (1914)
Les XX was a group of twenty Belgian painters, designers and sculptors, formed in 1883 by the Brussels lawyer, publisher, and entrepreneur Octave Maus. For ten years, they held an annual exhibition of their art; each year 20 other international artists were also invited to participate in their exhibition. Painters invited include Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne (1890), and Vincent van Gogh.
Poster of the 1889 Les XX exhibition
La Manneporte à Étretat, Claude Monet (1886)