Henk Peeters
° 1925
Born in 's-Gravenhage (Netherlands), lives in Hall, Gelderland (Netherlands).
Henk Peeters (1925, the Netherlands, lives in Hall) abandoned a figurative, socially-engaged style of painting for an informal, material-based approach in the late 1950s, while remaining firmly anti-capitalist. In 1958 he was one of the founders of the Informal Group in the Netherlands, which maintained contacts with Piero Manzoni, Yves Klein and Lucio Fontana. In 1961 it transformed itself into the group Nul, connected to the German Group Zero and the French Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel. Thanks to these European connections Peeters was invited to participate in the second of the international Nove tendencije exhibitions in Zagreb in 1963.
Works
>Henk Peeters, Rooktekening [Smoke drawing], 1961.Drawing.
>Henk Peeters, Rooktekening [Smoke drawing], 1961.Drawing.
>Henk Peeters, Ronde watjes [Round cotton balls], 1962.Mixed Media, mixed media, 200 x 90 cm.
>Jef Verheyen, Daimler Art Collection Stuttgart/Berlin, Henk Peeters, • 0728 • Espace, 1963.Painting, matt lacquer on canvas, 45 x 45 cm.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Spirits of Internationalism. 21 January 2012 - 29 April 2012.
> Exhibition: Jef Verheyen. Window on Infinity. 23 March 2024 - 18 August 2024.
> Exhibition: LATT: new art in Antwerp 1958-1962 #5 but vision itself. 07 December 2012 - 10 February 2013.
> Ensemble: Het Concrete [The Concrete].
> Ensemble: Jef Verheyen - ARCHIVE.
> Ensemble: Jef Verheyen - OEUVRE.
> Ensemble: Jef Verheyen - Public Collections.
> Ensemble: Jef Verheyen - Works from the 1960s.