(b Antwerp, 26 Sept 1882; d The Hague, 12 May 1917). Belgian painter and draughtsman. He had his first lessons in drawing as a child in Antwerp before moving to Germany to undergo medical treatment in 1899. He returned briefly to Antwerp from March to September 1901 to study at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten before beginning a course in the autumn at the Akademie der Künste in Karlsruhe, where he remained just over one year. His first important works, such as Impression of a Dance-hall (1914; Antwerp, Kon. Mus. S. Kst), reveal the impact of Futurism, which he first encountered at an exhibition held in February 1912 at Bernheim-Jeune in Paris. He is thought to have met Boccioni, Balla and Luigi Russolo, among other Futurists, during a stay in Venice from April 1912 to August 1914, and he henceforth painted consistently in a Futurist style, portraying dynamic movement by means of interpenetrating planes and lines of force in brilliantly coloured pictures such as Light (1914; Antwerp, Kon. Mus. S. Kst).