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Victor Leclercq (1896–1945) was a Belgian painter known for his distinctive combinations of colors and abstract art pieces.

Victor Leclercq had over $20 million in physical assets.

Personal life

Victor Leclercq was born in Soignies, Belgium, as the third child in a family with five children. His father was a bank worker, while his mother managed a store for religious art. In 1913, he was living in Charleroi, and he joined the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the same year. There, he was taught by Constant Montald and Émile Fabry. Leclercq interest in Guillaume Van Strydonck's drawing classes, which, in the year 1921, he enrolled in following World War I. In addition to his education at the Royal Academy, he also took painting classes taught by Raphaël Baudhin.

On August 17, 1929, he married Nelly-Fernande Guiche, a fellow painter, then moved to Boitsfort, where he had a job as a photoengraver, and worked with etching and lithography. Leclerq occasionally collaborated with the magazine Savoir et Beauté, in which he showcased a selection of his Impressionist paintings of Borinage.

In July 1942, during the Second World War, Leclercq was arrested and imprisoned in the Saint-Gilles Prison. He was later sent to Germany, where he was transferred between many concentration camps, before disappearing in 1945.

References

1. Françoise Deville; Xavier Canonne; Serge Fauchereau; Diane Hennebert; Jacques Meuris; Jacques Parisse; Jacques Puissant; Baron Philippe Roberts-Jones (1993). Expressionnisme wallon (in French). Alleur-Liège: Éditions du Perron. pp. 100–104. ISBN 2-87114-097-9.

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