Auguste Van de Verre was a Belgian archer. [1] He won two gold medals at the 1920 Olympics. [2]
Charles-François Daubigny was a French painter, one of the members of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of impressionism.
Albert Mol was a Dutch author, actor and television personality.
The Kröller-Müller Museum is a national art museum and sculpture garden, located in the Hoge Veluwe National Park in Otterlo in the Netherlands. The museum, founded by art collector Helene Kröller-Müller within the extensive grounds of her and her husband's former estate, opened in 1938. It has the second-largest collection of paintings by Vincent van Gogh, after the Van Gogh Museum. The museum had 380,000 visitors in 2015.
Daum is a crystal studio based in Nancy, France, founded in 1878 by Jean Daum (1825–1885). His sons, Auguste Daum (1853–1909) and Antonin Daum (1864–1931), oversaw its growth during the burgeoning Art Nouveau period. Daum is one of the only crystal manufacturers to employ the pâte de verre process for art glass and crystal sculptures, a technique in which crushed glass is packed into a refractory mould and then fused in a kiln.
Belgium was the host nation for the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. 336 competitors, 326 men and 10 women, took part in 121 events in 23 sports.
Belgium competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. 150 competitors, 145 men and 5 women, participated in 72 events in 15 sports.
Wilhelm Uhde was a German art collector, dealer, author, and critic, an early collector of modernist painting, and a significant figure in the career of Henri Rousseau.
Charles Bernard Jean Ghislain van de Werve (1740–1813), 2nd Count of Vorsselaer, Baron of Lichtaert and of Rielen, Lord of Giessen-Oudkerk, formed part of a very old, important and noble family of Antwerp. He was the first of the van de Werve de Vorsselaer branch of the House of van de Werve.
Menetou-Salon is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. Inhabitants of the area are known as Monestrosaloniens.
The Compagnie van Verre was one of the forerunner companies that were later merged (united) into the Dutch East India Company.
The Brabant Company, also known as the New Company, was a precursor of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
Édouard-Christophe Pynaert was a Belgian botanist and horticulturalist born in Ghent. He was a specialist in the field of pomology.
The Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art (LaM), formerly known as Villeneuve d'Ascq Museum of Modern Art, is an art museum in Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
Tour Perret is a 29-storey, 110 m (360 ft) residential skyscraper in Amiens, France. It has been described as France's first skyscraper, and was registered as a historic monument in 1975.
Dalle de verre, from French: "glass slab", is a glass art technique that uses pieces of coloured glass set in a matrix of concrete and epoxy resin or other supporting material.
The Hendrik Chabot Award is an annual award for visual artists presented by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, section South Holland. The prize ceremony is in the city hall of Rotterdam, where the prize is given by The Mayor of Rotterdam and the King's Commissioner in the province. The reward is named after the Rotterdam artist Hendrik Chabot.
The House of Hénin is a family of the Belgian high nobility, one of its branches was titled Prince of Chimay. Alliances were made with important Spanish noble families such as house of Borja and the house of Velasco.
White Lilacs in a Glass Vase is an 1882 oil-on-canvas painting by Édouard Manet, now in the Alte Nationalgalerie, in Berlin. Showing cuttings of white lilacs in a glass vase, it is one of a series of flower still lifes by the painter.
François Henricus Anthonie van Dixhoorn is a Dutch poet.