Louis Dewis
| Louis Dewis | |
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| Born |
Isidore Louis Dewachter 1 November 1872 Mons, Belgium |
| Died | 5 December 1946 (aged 74) Biarritz, France |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Known for | Painting |
| Notable work |
L’innondation, 1920 |
| Awards |
Officier d'Académie now known as the Ordre des Palmes Académiques Lauréat du Salon des Artistes Français Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur Grande Médaille de la Reconnaissance française Chevalier de l'Ordre de Leopold II Medaille du Roi Albert San'f al-Talet (Officer - Order of Glory (Tunisia) |
| Patron(s) | Georges Petit |
L’innondation, 1920
Officier d'Académie now known as the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
(France)
Lauréat du Salon des Artistes Français
(France)
Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur
(France)
Grande Médaille de la Reconnaissance française
(France)
Chevalier de l'Ordre de Leopold II
(Belgium)
Medaille du Roi Albert
(Belgium)
Louis Dewis (1872–1946) was a Belgian Post-Impressionist painter, who lived most of his adult life in France.
Dewis was born Isidore Louis Dewachter in Mons, Belgium, the son of Isidore Louis Dewachter and Eloise Desmaret Dewachter. He spent his formative years in Liege where his closest boyhood friend was Richard Heintz () (1871–1929), who also became an internationally known landscape artist.
Although the name "Dewachter" may have Flemish roots, Dewachter always considered himself a Walloon.
Louis' successful merchant father was embarrassed that his son would waste his time with something as useless as painting. In a vain attempt to break his young son of this "bad habit," the elder Dewachter would, on occasion, throw away the boy’s canvases, paints and brushes.
Young Louis' love of art could not be deterred. It could, however, be overwhelmed by business and family responsibilities
As the eldest son, Louis was expected to take over the family business, a chain of men's clothing stores called Maison Dewachter. This was a duty that his father would not allow him to shirk. Dewis would come to manage the store in Bordeaux but there were Maison Dewachters in cities across France and Belgium, usually run locally by one cousin or another. Louis would bear this responsibility until after his father's death and the conclusion of World War I.
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