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Jozef Muls
1882–1961
A Belgian writer and art historian who moved easily between literature, criticism, and museum life. His work ranged from poetry and wartime writing to essays on Flemish art and culture.
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De val van Antwerpen (october 1914)
by Jozef Muls
About the author
Born in Antwerp on July 12, 1882, Jozef Muls was a Belgian author, lawyer, critic, and art historian. He published from a young age, wrote under several pen names, and became closely associated with the Flemish cultural world.
Muls helped drive the literary and cultural review Vlaamsche Arbeid and built a reputation as an essayist and speaker with a strong interest in art. He later served as conservator of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp from 1929 to 1940, linking his writing career with a major role in museum and cultural life.
His books include poetry, literary travel pieces, wartime accounts, and studies of painters such as Bruegel. He also taught at KU Leuven, where his lectures on painting were remembered as especially popular. Muls died in Kapellen on April 22, 1961.