Guinotte, Lucien (1925-1989)

Lucien Guinotte was a Belgian painter, watercolorist and designer.

He was born March 8, 1925 in Mariemont (Morlanwelz), and died in Ostend in 1989.

He was a member of an important family of industrialists established in the Mariemont region, active in the coal mining sector.

He joined the military as a volunteer during the Second World War. After the war he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and in 1947 became a member of the renowned “Tendances contemporains” group with Pol Bury, Hélène Jacquet, Max Michotte and Marcel Dusaussois.

Guinotte’s earliest painting style was impressionistic, but in later years, he exhibited an increasingly expressionistic style with brilliant colors, heavy impasto, and energetic brushwork. These works, from what is known as his Ostend period, concentrated on figurative subjects, and are highly sought for their powerful, emotional expressionism.

The Colonel, one of Guinotte’s expressionistic portraits is of a World War I Belgian veteran in full formal uniform.