Michel Seuphor
Michel Seuphor (born March 10, 1901 in Antwerp , † February 12, 1999 in Paris ; actually Ferdinand Berckelaers ) was an art critic , painter , graphic artist and ceramist born in Belgium . In 1954 he took French citizenship .
life and work
In 1921 Seuphor founded the magazine "Het Overzicht" (The Overview or The Overview) with Joseph Peeters and Geert Pijnenburg , which was published until 1925. He later published important articles on modern art, in particular on Piet Mondrian .
From 1922 Seuphor was in contact with numerous avant-garde artists in the European centers of art (Berlin, Rome, Amsterdam and Paris), including Willi Baumeister , Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay-Terk , Piet Mondrian , Fernand Léger , Amédée Ozenfant , Albert Gleizes , Hans Arp , Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti . This circle assembled Cubists , Dadaists , Futurists and Constructivists .
From 1925 he lived in Paris, where in 1929 he co-founded the group " Cercle et Carré " (circle and rectangle). In 1930 Seuphor organized the group's first exhibition, in which Piet Mondrian , Hans Arp , Willi Baumeister , Sophie Taeuber-Arp , Fernand Léger , Kurt Schwitters , Wassily Kandinsky , Le Corbusier and Alberto Sartoris took part. In 1931 this group merged into the artist group “ Abstraction-Création ”. As a sculptor, he himself took part in several collective exhibitions in France and Europe from 1933 onwards.
After the Second World War, Seuphor realized other large exhibition projects, such as “Les Premiers Maîtres de l'Art Abstrait” (The first masters of abstract art) in 1949, “50 ans d'Art Abstrait” (50 years of abstract art) in 1958, and in 1959 in the USA, "Construction and Geometry Painting", participant in documenta II in Kassel and the great Mondrian retrospective in the Paris Orangery in 1959.
Seuphor owned an art collection of contemporary art after 1945, including works by Marcelle Cahn , Adam Jankowski , Jean Piaubert , Jean Leppien , Aurélie Nemours and Victor Vasarely .
Berckelaer's pseudonym Seuphor is an anagram of Orpheus that he accepted in 1918.
Fonts
- Piet Mondrian: sa vie, son œuvre , Flammarion, Paris 1956; Piet Mondrian. Life and work . DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1957
- Le don de la parole. Reflections on the langage. Paris 1970
- Écrits, œuvres, documents et témoignages. Paris 1976
- Parabolic. Paris 1968
- La vocation des Mots. Accompagné de 7 designs à lacunes. Lausanne 1966
- Michel Seuphor . Wienand, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-86832-216-3 , Dutch, German, English, French, overview of the complete works (exhibition catalog)
Web links
- Michel Seuphor ( Memento of April 21, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) (in French)
- Michel Seuphor ( Memento of December 10, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (in Dutch)
- Literature by and about Michel Seuphor in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Michel Seuphor in the documenta archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michel Seuphor , www.kubisme.info accessed on March 11, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seuphor, Michel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berckelaers, Ferdinand (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian-French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1999 |
| Place of death | Paris |