Untitled (after a schematic drawing from 1924)
1958
Painting, 60 x 47 cm.
Materials: Oil on canvas
Collection: Private collection, Belgium.
In 1960 Jozef Peeters dies. In the early 1920s,
this Antwerp painter had been a pioneer of
abstract art. When the Antwerp neo-avant-garde
group G58 is founded, the young generation
recognise Peeters’ pioneering role by appointing
him honorary chairman.
With the death of Peeters, Jef Verheyen loses
both a friend and role model. ‘You were a sort of
Tijl Uilenspiegel. I needed you, so that I could
learn something from your wisdom and age, your
magazines, the exhibitions with Klee, Kandinsky
and Moholy-Nagy, whose work you knew so well.’
