with sculptor Louis Jehotte at Académie des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; with sculptor Charles-Auguste Fraikin; with painters François-Joseph Navez, and Charles De Groux
1860s – exhibits at Brussels Salon
1868 – founds Société Libre des Beaux-Arts (Free Society of Fine Arts) in Brussels with Louis Dubois and Félicien Rops
1880 – exhibits paintings of industrial subjects in Ghent and at Paris Salon
1885 – exhibits sculptures at Les XX (Brussels)
1886 – exhibits The Hammerer at Paris Salon
1887 – appointed Professor of Painting at art academy in Leuven
1894 – returns to Brussels
1896 – resigns from Leuven Academy; retrospective exhibition at Siegfried Bing’s Galerie Art Nouveau (Paris)
1898 – exhibits at Vienna Secession
1899 – becomes member of Académie Royale de Belgique
1903 – receives commission from the Zola Committee for the figure group Fecundity
Spain (1882-23); Dresden, Berlin (1897)
Belgian government; Zola Committee
Monument to Labor, 1896 (bronze relief, Musée d‘Orsay, Paris)
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