The Laermans Wall

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Eugene Laermans painted 'The Dead' in 1904, a tragic scene that he had witnessed with his own eyes. During his student days, he saw a dead man dragged away along the bright white wall that surrounded the parish house of Wemmel. The man appeared to have drowned. It made a lasting impression on him. Laermans would forever associate the white wall with misery and doom. He will recur repeatedly in his paintings. The wall became a trope for hopelessness and alienation. Even other painters later copied the wall from Wemmel. It is not known exactly how the drowning man died. Laermans only shows that he was mourned by his loved ones, probably wife and child.

"The Dead" by Eugène Laermans hangs in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Brussels

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Source: VRT: Op reis met Vlaamse meesters

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Pascal Brackman

Translated by Azure

| | Public | Dutch

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Dr. H. Folletlaan, Wemmel

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