Henri Evenepoel

Henri Evenepoel (1872–1899) was a Belgian painter whose brief career produced some of the most distinctive Belgian Post-Impressionist canvases. Trained at the Brussels Academy and at Gustave Moreau's Paris studio (alongside Matisse and Rouault), Evenepoel developed a refined French-influenced manner that he applied to Brussels and Paris street scenes, family portraits, and a brilliant series produced during a stay in Algiers in 1897–1898. He died of typhoid in Paris aged twenty-six.

Evenepoel painted with broad, broken touch, saturated color, and bold flat shapes that reveal his absorption of Manet, Whistler, and Lautrec. His Algerian works show a particularly bold use of saturated complementary color.

Evenepoel was the most accomplished Belgian Post-Impressionist of the 1890s and a critical link between Brussels Symbolism and Parisian early modernism.