Marcel Lempereur-Haut (1898, Liège – 1986, Lille) was a Belgian painter. He took drawing lessons at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Liège where he obtained a diploma in surveying and, after World War I he worked as a technical draughtsman.

In 1920, he joined the group publishing the Anthologie art magazine. He started his artistic career by producing book illustrations and prints, mostly inspired by cubism. He produced his first abstract art in 1921, and in 1922 befriended František Kupka. From 1932, he participated in the exhibitions of the musicalist artists.

Marcel Lempereur-Haut

He lived in Paris from 1945 to 1958, and participated in the exhibitions of the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles. At this stage, his work mainly comprised combinations of circles, spirals and stars. His later works were mostly decorative.

Marcel Lempereur-Haut

Lempereur-Haut continued to paint into at least his late seventies, limiting himself to crayons on cardboard after a cataract operation in 1976 restricted his vision. A retrospective exhibition of his work was held in Lille in 1985.

Marcel Lempereur-Haut

References

Dictionnaire des peintres belges

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Belgian art

Belgian artists

Abstract artists

1898 births

1986 deaths

20th-century Belgian painters