Pierre Paulus de Châtelet | |
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Born | |
Died | 17 August 1959 Brussels, Belgium | (aged 78)
Notable work | Flag of Wallonia |
Movement | Expressionism |
Relatives | Pierre 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.