A splendid late 19th-century building, this is France's second largest fine art museum. Commissioned under Napoleon I and nicknamed the "Louvre of Lille", the Palais des Beaux Arts holds a ...

French artist Gérard Schlosser was born in 1931 in Lille and grew up in a post-war France where the art scene was buzzing with excitement and innovation. Schlosser's early influences came from the ...