Born in Paris, studied with Cormon, Delance, E. Renard, and Waltner. He began to exhibit at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1903 and at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1915. He was named by the French Government an official war artist during the First World War. After the war, he became a well-known portraitist, much in demand by celebrities, and was also the director of the Académie Delécluse in Montparnasse where American and other women studied art in the early 20th century.
Delécluse stayed in Macedonia in the period of 1916-1918, where he produced many watercolors and drawings depicting landscapes and cityscapes of Thessaloniki, Florina, Arnissa, Kaimachkalan, Djorma. He was mainly inspired by the daily life of all ethnic groups that lived in Aegean Macedonia. A large amount of the drawings and watercolors from this Macedonian period were sold via auction house “De Maigret” Paris on 24-11-2005.
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A Secret code in Macedonian embroidery?
The geometry, colors, and aesthetics of traditional Macedonian embroidery has mesmerized all war painters that traveled through Macedonia or fought with their armies on Macedonian