Paul Van Ostaijen

Paul van Ostaijen was born in Antwerp on 22 February 1896, the youngest child of a plumber who had come from the Netherlands. Dismissed from two schools, he became a clerk at the town hall. A Flemish activist during the occupation, he fled to Berlin in October 1918 and was sentenced in his absence; amnestied, he returned in 1921, did his military service in Germany, then tried to make a living from the art trade, with a gallery opened in Brussels in 1925 and closed after a year. He died on 18 March 1928 in Miavoye-Anthée, in the province of Namur.

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• PoetryOccupied CityBezette stadPaul Van Ostaijen · 1921LiteraturePublic domain