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Jean Baptiste Leopold Colin
Jean Colin (1881–1961) was a Flemish painter most known for his portraits, nudes, and still life paintings. He was a pupil of Isidore Verheyden, one of the great Belgian masters of the 19th century. Colin was also considered a contemporary of Philippe Swyncop, who shared Colin's talent for producing intense life in his portrait subjects. He lived and had his workshop in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, one of the municipalities In the Greater Brussels area, until the time of his death, In 1961.
His travels in Africa led him to develop a taste for the exotic, which came through in his many paintings of gypsies ("bohemians") and even Africans in the Belgian Congo. Colin painted many portraits of his family members and was also commissioned to paint the portrait of His Majesty King Albert I of Belgium. The children of the Bonnier family were often used as models In his works between the late 1920s and late 1930s. His painting 'Travesti' features Bertha and her older brother, Maurice, Bonnier, as well as the artist's wife.
Source: Jean Baptiste Leopold Colin, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJean Colin (general)
Jean Colin (also Jean-Alphonse and Jean-Lambert-Alphonse), (December 27, 1864 – December 30, 1917) was a French general and military writer. He has been judged "one of the brilliant members of the French General Staff before 1914."
Educated at the École polytechnique,he worked in the history service of the army from 1900 to 1906. He served in World War I, was made a général de brigade in 1917 and was killed that year in Serbia.
He translated Clausewitz's Der Feldzug von 1796 in Italien (1859) as Études sur la campagne de 1796-1797 en Italie (1889).
His best known work is Les transformations de la Guerre (Paris, 1911), translated as France and the Next War or as Transformations of War by L.H.R. Pope-Hennessy (London, 1912). His criticisms of Napoleon and the offensive school were controversial.
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