Founded in 1956, Brafa is one of the world’s oldest, most prestigious annual art fairs, showing ancient and modern painting, textiles, sculpture, jewelry and more.
Son of a worker, a worker himself from the age of 13, Leon Lesoil awakened to a political life during the First World War. Caught up by the wave of patriotism and chauvinism that swept over Belgium after the German invasion, he enlisted in August 1914 in the sincere belief that the war was in defense of Justice, a “war to end all wars.”