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unusual facts about Grez-Doiceau


Institut de Droit International

Since the election of Professor Joe Verhoeven as Secretary General in September 2003, the institute is headquartered in Grez-Doiceau, Belgium, with offices also at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.


Alexina Duchamp

Following Duchamp's death, Alexina moved to Villiers-sous-Grez, near Paris, where she assembled an archive of photographs and other material documenting the life and work of her late husband.

Carl Larsson

After spending two summers in Barbizon, the refuge of the plein-air painters, he settled down with his Swedish painter colleagues in 1882 in Grez-sur-Loing, at a Scandinavian artists' colony outside Paris.

Eric Fenby

Fenby worked, at the composer's home in Grez-sur-Loing, near Paris, for extended periods until Delius died almost six years later.

Fernand Lungren

Disappointed with the academic art that he observed, Lungren left his Paris studies and traveled to the town of Barbizon, South East of Paris, near Fontainebleau, and to the village of Grez-sur-Loing, where he became acquainted with artists who were practicing plein-air (outdoor) painting.

Francesco Netti

He worked in both Paris and the artists' colony at Grez-sur-Loing later in life.

George Henry Bogert

In 1884 he went to France and painted landscapes for a time at Grez, near the forest of Fontainebleau, afterwards going to Paris, where he studied under Colin, Aimé Morot, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.

H. Balfour Gardiner

He financed these concerts himself; he continued to be notably generous with his personal fortune, paying for a private benefit performance of The Planets for Gustav Holst in 1918, and purchasing Frederick Delius's house at Grez-sur-Loing to enable him to continue living in it at the end of his life.

Jelka Rosen

In 1897, on his return from Florida, he moved into her Grez-sur-Loing house, owned by her and her mother, and they married in September 1903.

Karl Nordström

He spent a couple of years in Grez-sur-Loing, the site of an important colony of Scandinavian artists, practising his plein air painting in the strong French sunlight.

Kuroda Seiki

In 1890 Kuroda moved from Paris to the village of Grez-sur-Loing, an artists' colony which had been formed by painters from the United States and from northern Europe.

Richard Bergh

After studying at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, Bergh traveled to France where he frequently visited the artist colony in Grez-sur-Loing.

Robert Vonnoh

The show included photographs of the artists' colony in Grez-sur-Loing along with accompanying images of the artist as well as a bronze relief made by his wife, the sculptor, Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872-1955).


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