# 42 | Frans Masereel (1889-1972): Idealism in the Art of an Eyewitness to History | Olivier Van den Bossche

Frans Masereel was a Belgian artist whose engraving work has had a lasting influence on the genre.  Such influence spread a bit everywhere and even as far away as China, where he had emulators as early as the 1930s, starting when his works were brought there clandestinely.  Known for adding an acid stroke to ...