Leonard Misonne - Belgian pictorialist - photographer 1870 - 1943

Misonne, Léonard (1870-1943), Belgian pictorialist photographer. Born in provincial southern Belgium into a prosperous family, Misonne studied mining engineering, but never practised it, preferring to devote himself entirely to photography from 1896 onwards. A prominent presence in the first wave of pictorialism, Misonne travelled widely and learned the bromoil process from Émile Constant Puyo in Paris in 1910. As a figurehead of the pictorialist movement in Belgium, he acquired a lasting reputation for lan