Editing Genk (section)

=== 19th century ===
During a century of on-going [[Industrial Revolution#Belgium|industrialisation]] further south in Belgium, [[Limburg (Belgium)|Limburg]] modernised only slowly: Genk remained unimportant and small, growing slowly to a population of 2,000 around 1900. The village was the home of landscape painters and writers such as [[Neel Doff]] and became an artist colony where over 400 landscape painters painted en plein air.