Marcel Lempereur-Haut

Marcel Lempereur-Haut (1898, Liège – 1986, Lille) was a Belgian painter. He took drawing lessons at the Liège Academy of Fine Arts 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.^[1] 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.^[2] From 1932, he participated in the exhibitions of the musicalist artists.

He lived in Paris from 1945 to 1958, and participated in the exhibitions of the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles.^[3] At this stage, his work mainly comprised combinations of circles, spirals and stars. His later works were mostly decorative.

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.^[4] A retrospective exhibition of his work was held in Lille in 1985.^[5]

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^ Revue belge d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art. 66. Académie royale d'archéologie de Belgique: 149. 1997. ISSN 0035-077X. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ Parisse, Jacques (1975). Actuel XX: la peinture à Liège au XXe siècle. Editions Mardaga. p. 170. ISBN 978-2-8021-0006-5.
^ Lhotellier, Henry; Dominique Viéville (1980). Réalités nouvelles: 1946-1956 : [exposition], Musée des beaux-arts de Calais, 9 février – 8 avril 1980. Musée des beaux-arts de Calais. p. 15. OCLC 8346369.
^ Lanthony, Philippe (2009). Art & ophthalmology: the impact of eye diseases on painters. Kugler Publications. pp. 82–83. ISBN 978-90-6299-460-1.
^ Lempereur-Haut, rétrospective: du 18 octobre au 29 décembre 1985. Musée d'art moderne, Lille. 1985. OCLC 464029426.