The Critics: Books When, in August 1914, Germany invaded Belgium and the stories of atrocities started to circulate, hundreds of thousands of Belgians fled first their homes and then their country. Fellow Belgian artists brought to Aberystwyth alongside De Saedeleer included his friends the sculp - tor George Minne and the painters Edgar Gevaert and Gustave van de Woestyne. Once in Wales, De Saedeleer found new landscapes, quite different to those of much of Flanders, but with some similarities to the countryside of the Ardennes where he was living when war broke out. [Extracted from the article]
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