Jef Verheyen

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Jef Verheyen (born July 6, 1932 in Itegem , Antwerp province , Belgium ; † March 2, 1984 in Apt , Vaucluse department , France) was a Belgian painter who was close to the ZERO movement.

Life

Verheyen studied painting, drawing and ceramics at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp and later at the Hoger Institute. At the institute he met his future wife Dani Franque . In 1954, the two opened a ceramics atelier with a shop in Antwerp opposite the Rubenshuis , L'atelier 14 . From 1956 they took part together in various exhibitions in Belgium.

Verheyen turned more and more to painting and traveled to Milan in the late 1950s , where he met Piero Manzoni , R. Crippa and Lucio Fontana . In 1958 he was one of the organizers of G-58 . In the following years he published the essay Essentialisme and worked together with P. De Vree and Englebert Van Anderlecht at the Nieuwe Vlaamse School . With Van Anderlecht he painted a series of 10 pictures with the title Ni l'un ni l'autre .

In the Antwerp Hessenhuis , Verheyen met Günther Uecker in the early 1960s and since then has participated in numerous ZERO group exhibitions and worked together with representatives of the group. Examples of this are Verheyen's paintings, which were cut up by Lucio Fontana, or the collaboration in the Land Art exhibition Vlaamse Landschappen ( Flemish Landscapes ) in 1967. During this time he played an important role as the group's contact with Belgian artists.

In 1974 Verheyen and his wife moved to the south of France. Retrospectives on his work were shown in the Paleis voor Schone Kunsten in Brussels and in Geneva. In the early 1980s he published his graphics on texts by Ivo Michiels and Guy Vaes .

In 1984, Verheyen, who had a heart condition, died in a judo competition on the tatami .

In May 2007, Sotheby’s in Milan sold various works / objects from the Jef Verheyen / E. Dani Franque auctioned.

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Bernard Gallery: Jeff Verheyen , Grenchen 1961.
  • M. Wassermann: Jef Verheyen , Edition e, Munich 1981.
  • Dieter Schwarz: Antwerp / Bruxelles '60; Bram Bogart, Englebert Van Anderlecht, Jef Verheyen , Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur 2002 ISBN 3-906664-32-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Welt am Sonntag of September 5, 2010, page 81: Longing for infinity
personal data
SURNAME Verheyen, Jef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Itegem , Antwerp Province , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1984
Place of death Apt