Lucebert

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Everything valuable is defenseless (poem by Lucebert "Alles van waarde is weerloos" in neon letters on the building of an insurance company in Rotterdam.)

Lucebert (born September 15, 1924 in Amsterdam , † May 10, 1994 in Alkmaar ; actually Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk ) was a Dutch painter , graphic artist , poet and writer.

life and work

Lucebert broke off his studies at the Amsterdam School of Applied Arts in 1938 after half a year. In 1948 Lucebert and other young poets and painters founded the Experimentele Groep in Holland . It was their aim to “fight frozen aesthetic conceptions” in order to enable “free development of the new artistic principles”. After working together with Belgian and Danish artists such as Pierre Alechinsky and Asger Jorn and Carl-Henning Pedersen , they founded the Cobra group in Paris . Lucebert was mainly active as a poet in the group. Lucebert's first reading of his poems on the occasion of the first Cobra exhibition ends with a scandal. After tumult in the audience, the police had to prematurely end the lecture by Lucebert and his friends. In 1969 Lucebert received a commission from the city of Amsterdam for a play. In 1974 his Verzamelde poems appeared .

With surrealist and Dadaist influences, Lucebert's poetry was considered avant-garde and revolutionary. He broke the usual rules of poetry and created a new, young and modern spelling. His oeuvre also includes paintings, gouaches, drawings, graphics and book illustrations.

He participated in documenta II (1959) and documenta III in 1964 in Kassel . In 1958 Lucebert had his first solo exhibition in a Haarlem gallery and in 1959 his first museum exhibition in the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum. It is located in the Algemene begraafplaats cemetery in Bergen (North Holland) .

Books of poetry (selection)

  • 1951 - Triangle in de jungle
  • 1953 - Apocrief. De illiterate Naam
  • 1952 - De Amsterdamse school
  • 1955 - Alfabel
  • 1957 - Amulet
  • 1960 - lithology
  • 1968 - Poëzie is kind of fun
  • 1969 - Koppen
  • 1971 - stage screens
  • 1972 - V (ijf) V (ijf)
  • 1981 - Oogsten in de dwaaltuin
  • 1981 - Paradijs: vijf etsen en vijf poems
  • 1993 - Van de roerloze woelgeest
  • 1994 - Van de maltentige losbol
  • 2005 - He is leven na de dood

Exhibitions (selection)

Prizes and awards

literature

  • Peter Winter: Lucebert, exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1987. Kunstforum International Volume 88; Ruppichteroth 1987
  • Heinz Thiel; You're constantly walking around in the imaginary museum ... A conversation with Lucebert . Kunstforum International Volume 105; Ruppichteroth 1990
  • Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959
  • Exhibition catalog for documenta III (1964) in Kassel : documenta III. International exhibition . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Industrial design, graphics. Kassel / Cologne 1964
  • Theo Rommerskirchen: Lucebert . In: viva signature si! Remagen-Rolandseck 2005, ISBN 3-926943-85-8 .

Web links

Commons : Lucebert  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cees Noteboom : Tumbas. Graves of poets and thinkers, Gutenberg Book Guild 2006, ISBN 9783763257638
personal data
SURNAME Lucebert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Swaanswijk, Lubertus Jacobus (real name); Swaanswyk, Lubertus Jacobus; Zwaanswijk, Lambertus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter, printmaker, poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1994
Place of death Alkmaar