Léon Devos (1897–1974) was a Belgian painter. He studied in

Mons Mons commonly refers to: * Mons, Belgium, a city in Belgium * Mons pubis (mons Venus or mons veneris), in mammalian anatomy, the adipose tissue lying above the pubic bone * Mons (planetary nomenclature), a sizable extraterrestrial mountain * Batt ...

and at the

Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels ( ''(ArBA-EsA)''; ) is an art school in Brussels, Belgium, founded in 1711. Starting from modest beginnings in a single room in Brussels Town Hall, Brussels' Town Hall, it has since 1876 been operat ...

Brussels Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit ...

.Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique (IRPA)
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists
/ref> In 1928, Devos, Anto-Carte, Léon Navez, and

Frans Depooter Frans Depooter, born in Mons, Belgium, in 1898, was a Belgian painter. He died in 1987 in Maffe (Havelange, Belgian Ardennes) at age 89. Depooter began working at age 13 in his family's business (his father was a decorator in Mons), where he met ...

became co-founders of the

Groupe Nervia Founded in at the instigation of the insurance broker Léon Eeckman and of the painters Anto-Carte and Louis Buisseret, the Groupe Nervia was a Belgian artistic circle, the purpose of which was to foster Walloon art, obscured by the Flemish E ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Devos, Leon 1897 births 1974 deaths 20th-century Belgian painters