page_title: Henry de Groux
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Henry de Groux / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Ride of the Valkyries (ca. 1890) by Henry De Groux (1867-1930) Nederlands: De Walkurenrit Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium &#160;&#160;Native nameKoninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van BelgiëMusées Royaux des Beaux Arts de BelgiqueLocationBrusselsCoordinates50°&#160;50′&#160;31″&#160;N, 4°&#160;21′&#160;28″&#160;E Established1801Web pagewww.fine-arts-museum.beAuthority control : Q377500 VIAF:&#8201;125290757 ISNI:&#8201;0000 0004 0611 0534 LCCN:&#8201;n83200296 SUDOC:&#8201;02654959X BNF:&#8201;11877622s WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q377500
context_page_description: Henry de Groux was a Belgian Symbolist painter, sculptor and lithographer. His 1889 painting Christ attacked by a mob made when he was only 22 years old established his reputation as an innovative Symbolist painter and ensured his admission to the progressive artistic circles in Brussels. He spent most of his active career in Paris. He produced many works depicting the horrors of the First World War in the latter part of his career.
context_section_description: De Groux was the son of the painter and engraver Charles de Groux. Like his father, he trained at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.  Henry was elected a member of les XX in 1886, but was expelled in 1890 when he refused to have his works displayed in the same gallery as Vincent van Gogh.
  De Groux subsequently moved to Paris, where he befriended Émile Zola. During the social unrest resulting from the Dreyfus affair, de Groux acted as one of Zola's bodyguards.  In Paris he also rubbed shoulders with other artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Whistler, Gauguin, Ensor, Rodin and Debussy. He also frequented many writers, including his future son-in-law Emile Baumann, Stéphane Mallarmé, Guillaume Apollinaire, Oscar Wilde, Léon Bloy - with whom he maintained a fusional friendship - Verlaine, Zola, Heredia, Gide, Milosz, Remy de Gourmont and Joris-Karl Huysmans.
  Henri de Groux exhibited all over Europe at the salons of Paris, Brussels, Ostend, Spa, Amsterdam, London and Florence.  In the latter places he was interned in a psychiatric hospital. He escaped from it and walked all the way to back to Marseille.
  He illustrated various literary works. He contributed lithographs to L'Estampe originale (1893) and L'Épreuve (1895).
  De Groux had a reputation of a bohemian living a wild and disorderly life.  In the preamble of Léon Bloy's book La Femme pauvre (The Poor Woman) de Groux is described as follows : With the exception of our great painter Henry de Groux, who has descended as deeply as you and as heartily into my black pit? (La Part Commune Edition, 1897).
  His elder daughter Elisabeth de Groux was an engraver. She married Emile Baumann who after his father in laws business write a revealing biography titled The terrible life of Henry de Groux.
caption: Ride of the Valkyries
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