Eugeen Zetternam

Eugeen Zetternam is the pen name of Judocus Josephus Diricksens, born in Antwerp on 4 April 1826. He grew up in poverty, learned the trade of house and furniture painter and, between the ages of eleven and sixteen, attended the drawing courses of the Antwerp Academy. His debut, in 1845, drew the attention of Conscience; he did his military service from 1847 to 1849 and then lived by his trade as a painter. He was the first to take city workers as his subject, and the Ghent socialists made him a cult figure. He died in Antwerp on 10 October 1855.

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• NovelArnold de DroomerEugeen Zetternam · 1852not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain