Francis Petrus Paulus
A Detroit teacher who kept one foot in Bruges and made its canals and markets his subject.
Paulus was born in Detroit and trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in Munich and at the École des Beaux-Arts. He taught at the Detroit Art Museum from 1880 to 1890 and co-founded the Detroit Art Academy with Joseph W. Gies, directing it from 1895 to 1903.
From 1898 he kept a studio in Bruges and divided his time between the two cities, directing an art school there from 1905. His Fish Market, Bruges won the Detroit Museum of Art Founders Society Prize in 1926. He died in Detroit in 1933.