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Luc Indestege was born in Zonhoven on 5 February 1901 and died in Brussels on 11 July 1974. He was a Belgian poet and prose writer and spoke Dutch.

Life
Luc Indestege studied German philology at the Université Catholique de Louvain and got his doctorate in 1925 thanks to the presentation of a thesis about Henriette Roland Holst. He started his career as a teacher at the Athénée Thérésien de Bruxelles (collegium Theresianum) and then became a teaching assistant for the Dutch language at the University of Padua between 1952 and 1956.

His literary accomplishment
His melancholy verses made him famous as a poet. He also translated into Dutch from French, Latin and Italian. The texts were written by a lot of foreign writers and poets such as Louise Labé and the Goliards. He also published surveys about Italian literature.

In 1942 he got the Auguste Beernaerts prize for his poetry collection Orpheus and Eurudike (Orphée and Eurydice)

Iconography
There are a lot of portraits representing Luc Indestege made by the painter Lismonde:
 * Luc Indeteges portrait, charcoal pencil on paper, 970x650mm (catalogue raisonné n°830)
 * Sketch (Luc Indesteges portrait), 1944, lead mine on paper, 162x111mm (Maison Lismonde’s collection, Linkebeek) (cat. 922)
 * Luc Indetedges portrait, 1951, charcoal pencilon paper, 1020x820 mm. (cat. 1476)
 * Luc Indestedges portrait, 1952 (Maison Lismonde’ collection, Linkebeek), (cat. 1514)