Pol Leurs POLEURS

10 editions · 15 works

Pol Leurs is born in 1947 in the city of Luxembourg and lives as a retired engineer in Gonderange (Luxembourg). He is married and father of three adult boys. Self-taught in art, his works are regularly published in the Luxembourgish magazines Revue, Forum and Ons Stad from 1975 to 1983. Since 1976 he has held individual exhibitions in Luxembourg and participated at many national and international exhibitions. He was a jury member at several international cartoon contests and was president of the jury at Salon International de la Caricature et du Cartoon de Vianden (Luxembourg) from 2009 to 2013. Since 2020 he is president of the jury of the international contest of the European Cartoon Center (Kruishoutem, Belgium). Since 1980 Pol Leurs has participated at international cartoon contests and the young autodidact won his first prize, a special award for particular remarkable performance, at Cartoon’80 Berlin. Meanwhile he has won 78 prizes and mentions at national and international cartoon competitions, 18 of which are first prizes. As member of the luxembourgish association CartoonArt.lu he promotes with some fellow artists and friends the cartoon art in his homeland. Since 2003 Pol Leurs has periodically published 5 cartoon books of a selection from his works. Read more