Odon Lallemand

The Belgian landscape painter and sculptor Odon Lallemand was known mainly for his war victims monument in Tilleur, Belgium. He was trained at the School of Landscape Painting in Liège. Together with fellow Olympian Jean Boedts, he applied in 1938 for a grant to travel to the Belgian colony of Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) for study and propaganda purposes. Eventually however, only Boedts’s stay was supported. Engaged in ceramics since the 1920s Lallemand submitted a terracotta Javelin Thrower, created in the previous year, for the 1952 art exhibition in Helsinki.