Eugène Laermans

Born: 1864

Death: 1940

Biography:

Eugène Jules Joseph Baron Laermans (22 October 1864 – 22 February 1940) was a Belgian painter. He was born in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. At the age of eleven, he contracted meningitis, which left him deaf and nearly mute (although some sources say he was born deaf). This concentrated his attention on his sense of sight, and led to his decision to become ...