Henri Roidot

1877-1960

Henri Roidot was born in Anderlecht in 1877. He was a painter in oils and watercolours whose subject matter was typically the landscape of the province of Brabant in Walloon. Roidot's Belgian contemporaries include Lucien Franck, Paul Leduc and Hubert van den Bossche.

His training took place at L'Academie de Saint-Gilles and L'Academie de Bruxelles and his style was a blend of impressionism and Belgian luminism. He particularly liked to depict the small valleys around Linkebeek and he often applied the vivid colours with a palette knife.

Roidot was a member of a group comprising Belgium's other principle luminist's called Vie et Lumiere which was founded in 1904 around Emile Claus. The group formed with the intent of holding one exhibition a year and taking part as a group in other shows. He was also a member of Pour l'Art which was a fairly radical artistic circle founded in 1892 for the express purpose of challenging older artists to evolve with the new direction that art was taking in Europe and of Ucce Centre d'Art.

His work can be seen in Museums at Brussels, Mons and Ixelles.