René Van de Sande - Lithograph, untitled - Sold

René Van de Sande, born in Tournai in 1889 and died in Anderlecht in 1946, was a Belgian Post-Impressionist painter, watercolorist, draftsman, etcher, and lithographer of landscapes and cityscapes. From 1906 onwards, he settled in the Brussels district of Anderlecht and worked as a draftsman in the Municipal Archives and later in the Municipal Museum of Brussels. During the First World War, René Van de Sande drew the misery of his compatriots and made numerous sketches and etchings of old Brussels. He contributed to the founding of the Municipal Museum in the Bread House (Grand Place) in Brussels (1935). Designer of the city's emblem (Saint Michael with the Dragon). Info: Biographical Lexicon Arto, p. 457.