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LATT: New Art in Antwerp 1958-1962 #4 Center for Contemporary Artistic Expressions

Actors (22)

Guy Mees
Guy Mees (1935-2003) emerges as a painter in Antwerp in the late fifties, when post-war avant-garde art from the US was just beginning to fin
Dan Van Severen
For Dan Van Severen, each work is a step toward a lofty goal. Everything is part of a quest for the essential: austere compositions based on
Mark Verstockt
Marc Verstockt or Mark Verstockt (Lokeren, 16 July 1930 – Antwerp, 14 May 2014) was a sculptor, graphic artist and painter. He studied at th
Jan Dries
"... The more organic, anthropomorphic forms of Jan Dries, eccentric shapes from a vague Primordial Realm - taking pieces with an irresistibl
Jef Verheyen
Jef Verheyen consistently marched to the beat of his own drum within the history of Flemish, Belgian and international abstract art from 1954
Willy Anthoons
Willy Anthoons studies at La Cambre in Brussels with Oscar Jespers, and in 1945 co-establishes Jeune Peinture Belge. He moves to Paris in 19
Gaston Bertrand
No description.
Bram Bogart
First working expressionist, Bram Bogart starts in the 1950s to mine the arsenal of linear, geometric forms. He experiments with mixing oil
Jo Delahaut
No description.
Antoine Mortier
'The reality that lies at the basis, leads me to an "abstract" form, I abstract 'form'. This form is imagined as a basic thought. She is the
Luc Peire
Luc Peire is a Belgian artist. He considers man as a spiritual being. The evolution in his work is through stylization and abstraction of thi
Roger Raveel
Roger Raveel is a contemporary Flemish post-expressionist painter and creator of ceramics and art objects. Although his work is not to be ass
Englebert Van Anderlecht
Jef Verheyen and Englebert Van Anderlecht became good friends after Verheyen introduced Van Anderlecht to Enzo Pagani as well as to Hans Liec
Camiel Van Breedam
No description.
Guy Vandenbranden
*"la géometrie, contrairement à ce que croient les ignorants, donne les plus profondes voluptés"*. (Guy Vandenbranden) De naoorlogse kuns
Louis Van Lint
"Louis Van Lint: il fut et reste le prince de l'abstraction poétique en Belgique" (Danièle Gillemon, Le Soir, 30.12.1986)
Fernand Vonck
Fernand Vonck begins his artistic life as painter, turning his hand to sculpture in 1952. After a figurative period, he consistently makes a
Maurice Wyckaert
Maurice Wyckaert (1923–1996) was a Belgian artist, born in 1923, in the city of Brussels. He is a neo-expressionistic, lyrical abstract paint
Julien Coulommier
No description.
Guy Vaes
The French-language Antwerp author Guy Vaes (1927-2012) acquires fame in 1956 with his first novel Octobre long dimanche. Not just as author,
Gaston Xhardez
Gaston Xhardez (1924-1996), in the catalogue to the Hessenhuis exhibition foto’59, describes himself as ‘advertising designer, painter’. Dur
Nadia Naveau
Nadia Naveau: playful confusion Nadia Naveau studied sculpture at the Royal Academy of Antwerp and the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in A

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