Marcel Lempereur-Haut, Belgian painter of the 20th century, was famous in cubism and European abstraction.

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Fascinated by mathematics and ornament, he studied drawing at the Beaux-Arts and the Industrial School of Liège. Lempereur-Haut developed a passion for abstraction and participated in the founding of the Modern Art and Literature Group, intended to develop a new aesthetic.

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The artist moved to Lille in 1924, where he met Frantisek Kupka, which encourages him in the path of non-figuration. Lempereur-Haut developed a personal style characterized by compositions with timeless patterns - such as the heart, the flower, the cross or the star - deployed according to rigorous mathematical principles. His attraction for geometry and decoration gives his work a great artistic coherence. At the beginning of the 1930s, the painter became close to Henry Valensi's Musicalists with whom he continued to exhibit after the war, at the Salon des Réalities Nouvelles, a major center of abstraction.

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In 1965, the Museum of Fine Arts in Lille organized a retrospective dedicated to the artist, the first of a series of personal exhibitions crowned by that of the Museum of Modern Art in Villeneuve d'Ascq in 1985, a few months before his death.