Pierre Paulus

Pierre Paulus
de Châtelet
Portrait bust (1930) by Alphonse Darville
Born(1881-03-16)16 March 1881
Died17 August 1959(1959-08-17) (aged 78)
Brussels, Belgium
Notable workFlag of Wallonia
MovementExpressionism
RelativesPierre 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.[1]

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.

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