Max Elskamp

Max Elskamp was born in Antwerp on 5 May 1862, grandson of a shipowner and son of a banker. A doctor of law of the Université libre de Bruxelles in 1884, he pleaded little, then lived on his private income. Trained in the printing house of his friend Buschmann, he engraved the woodcuts of his books himself and printed them in small runs. He took part in founding the Antwerp folklore museum and bequeathed to the musée de la Vie wallonne in Liège nearly six hundred old instruments. Exiled for two years in the Netherlands during the war, he died in Antwerp on 10 December 1931.

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• PoetryLa Chanson de la rue Saint-PaulMax Elskamp · 1922not translated into EnglishLiterature