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Henri Paul Émile Victor Cassiers, also known as Henry and Hendrick Cassiers (Antwerp, 11 August - Ixelles - Elsene, 27 February ) was a Belgian Art Nouveau artist and illustrator.

Early life

Born in Antwerp in , Cassiers was the son of Paul Cassiers and Victoire Pelgrims. He studied architecture in Brussels with Paul Saintenoy for six years.^[1] He also took courses at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and other schools.^[2] Largely self-taught as a painter in watercolours, he became a skilful draughtsman.

In , he had his first exhibition of paintings, which went well, and gave up on architecture.^[1]

At about this time, Cassiers went to live in the fishing town of Knokke, where there was a large artist colony which included Alfred Verwee, Louis Artan, Flori van Acker, Franz Courtens, and later Alfred Bastien and Firmin Baes.

Career

After , Cassiers continued to exhibit and to travel. He had successful exhibiti