Julien Celos Art

Julien Celos was born in Antwerp in 1884 and studied at the Academy of Antwerp under the guidance of Franz Courtens. Celos devoted his career to the painting of one subject, that being the towns and rural landscapes of his beloved Flanders. Working in style reminiscent of his contemporary Albert Baertsoen, Celos particularly enjoyed painting views of the towns of Antwerp, Bruges and Ghent. Later in life, Celos abandoned oil painting to concentrate on producing a monumental suite of engravings depicting historic buildings of the Flanders. These engravings were published and are now some of the only records of buildings destroyed in World War II. Celos enjoyed a long and successful career and died in Antwerp in 1953.