Pierre Paulus

Baron Pierre Paulus de Châtelet
Portrait bust (1930) by Alphonse Darville
Born	(1881-03-16)16 March 1881 Châtelet, Belgium
Died	17 August 1959(1959-08-17) (aged 78) Brussels, Belgium
Notable work	Flag of Wallonia
Movement	Expressionism
Relatives	Pierre Binetter

Pierre Paulus (1881–1959), later Baron Pierre Paulus de Châtelet, was a Belgian expressionist painter. He is best known as the designer of the "bold rooster" (French: coq hardi) adopted on 3 July 1913 as the symbol of the Walloon Movement and today the flag of Wallonia.

Paulus gained notability during the Walloon Art Exposition of Charleroi in 1911 and, in the interwar period, he held several exhibitions in Europe and in the United States.

References

• Delforge, Paul; Philippe Destatte; Micheline Libon (2001). Encyclopédie du mouvement wallon – Volume 3 : Lettres O – Z. Charleroi: Institut Jules Destrée. pp. 1244–1245. ISBN 978-2-87035-021-8.

External links

• (in French) Biography in "Cent Wallons du Siècle", Institut Jules Destrée, Charleroi, 1995
• Short bio on Charleroi's Museum of fine arts website
• Biography at the Dictionnaire des Wallons