Théodore Hannon

Théodore Hannon
Théodore Hannon
Born(1851-10-01)1 October 1851
Ixelles, Belgium
Died7 April 1916(1916-04-07) (aged 64)
Etterbeek, Belgium
Occupation
  • artist
  • writer
  • poet

Théodore (Théo) Hannon (1851-1916) was a Belgian painter, watercolorist, engraver, and man of letters. As a man of letters, he was a scenarist, theatrical-parodist, and poet.

As a poet he enjoyed the rare honor of being mentioned in glowing terms—along with French contemporaries Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Stéphane Mallarmé, Tristan Corbière, and Paul Verlaine—by Des Esseintes in Joris-Karl Huysmans' famous decadent novel, À rebours