{{Short description|Belgian expressionist painter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = Baron | name = Pierre Paulus | honorific_suffix = de Châtelet | image = Pierre Paulus.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = Portrait bust (1930) by Alphonse Darville | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1881|03|16}} | birth_place = Châtelet, Belgium | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1959|08|17|1881|03|16}} | death_place = Brussels, Belgium | movement = Expressionism | notable_works = Flag of Wallonia | relatives = Pierre Binetter }}

'''Pierre Paulus''' (1881–1959), later Baron Pierre Paulus de Châtelet, was a Belgian expressionist painter. He is best known as the designer of the "bold rooster" ({{langx|fr|coq hardi}}) adopted on 3 July 1913 as the symbol of the Walloon Movement and today the flag of Wallonia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allstates-flag.com/fotw/flags/be-wal_l.html#wal98|title=AllStates Flag Co., Inc. - Helping you lower the cost of raising your flags. Only All inclusive Resorts here}}</ref>

Paulus gained notability during the Walloon Art Exposition of Charleroi in 1911 and, in the interwar period, he held several exhibitions in Europe and in the United States.

== References == * {{cite book |title= Encyclopédie du mouvement wallon – Volume 3 : Lettres O – Z |last= Delforge |first= Paul |author2=Philippe Destatte |author3=Micheline Libon |year= 2001 |publisher= Institut Jules Destrée |location= Charleroi |isbn= 978-2-87035-021-8 |pages= 1244–1245 }}

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== External links == * {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.wallonie-en-ligne.net/1995_Cent_Wallons/Paulus_Pierre.htm Biography in "Cent Wallons du Siècle"], Institut Jules Destrée, Charleroi, 1995 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090706014222/http://www.charleroi-museum.org/mba/code/en/expo_paulus.htm Short bio on Charleroi's Museum of fine arts website] * [http://connaitrelawallonie.wallonie.be/fr/wallons-marquants/dictionnaire/paulus-pierre Biography] at the Dictionnaire des Wallons

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