Willem Pauwels
Willem Pauwels (* 1910 in Saint-Gilles / Sint-Gillis near Brussels ; † June 28, 2005 in Brussels, Belgium ) was a Belgian artist .
He called himself Wilchar and was arrested by the German occupiers in 1943 as an employee of the banned magazine Art et Liberté . He became known with 32 gouaches about the living conditions of the victims of National Socialism in the Fort Breendonk concentration camp , which he created after his liberation in 1945.
Since the 1940s he has been one of the best-known artists in Belgium and developed a particularly socially critical oeuvre . He gave u. a. also published the magazines Peint à la main and L'Impertinent .
Web links
- Wilchar.be (French and Dutch)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pauwels, Willem |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wilchar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sint-Gillis , Belgium |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 2005 |
| Place of death | Brussels , Belgium |