Overview
Georges Lemmen was a late 19th century Neo-Impressionist painter from Belgium. He adopted the Neo-Impressionist style after seeing George Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte at the 1887 exhibition of Les XX held at the Musée de l’Art Modern in Brussels. Founded by the Belgian art and music critic, Octave Maus, as a counter movement to annual exhibitions of traditional art, Les XX consisted of a group of twenty Belgian painters, designers, sculptors and writers who organized annual exhibitions in Brussels from 1884-1893. Through their promotion of Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism. Les XX played a significant role in the development of modern art in Belgium and even abroad. The local artists (Vingtistes) such as Van Rysselberghe, Toorop, Khnopff and Ensor and those invited from abroad (Invités) Monet, Whistler, Gauguin, Pissarro Seurat and Van Gogh, worked in a variety of styles, including Impressionism, Symbolism, Realism and Pointillism. Lemmen was elected a member of Les XX in 1888, and exhibited annually with the group from 1889-1893, and with its successor La Libre Esthétique.