Raoul De Keyser
Raoul De Keyser (born August 29, 1930 in Deinze , East Flanders Province , Kingdom of Belgium ; † October 6, 2012 ibid) was a Belgian artist who was a representative of abstract painting in the 20th century.
Life
De Keyser was an autodidact who found his way to the fine arts in the 1960s . Before that he was a sports reporter. It was not until the early 1990s that there were major exhibitions of his works in Germany and Switzerland. The Belgian curator of documenta IX Jan Hoet presented his works to a larger audience for the first time through this exhibition in Kassel in 1992 .
Works in public collections
- Museum of Modern Art , New York City, USA
- Museum Ludwig , Cologne
- Museum of Contemporary Art , Los Angeles, California, USA
- Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , San Francisco, California, USA
- Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst , Ghent, Belgium
Solo exhibitions
- 2000: The Royal Hibernian Academy , Dublin, Ireland
- 2001: Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
- 2001: The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago
- 2002: Museum Dhont-Dhaenens , Deurle , Belgium
- 2004: Retrospective at the Whitechapel Art Gallery , London and then in various cities in Europe, finally in 2005 at the Kunstverein St. Gallen , St. Gallen , Switzerland
- 2006: Musée des beaux arts , Brussels
- 2009: Kunstmuseum Bonn , Bonn
- 2011: De Loketten , the Flemish Parliament , Brussels
literature
- Robert Storr: Raoul De Keyser , Steidl, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86930-054-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | De Keyser, Raoul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian abstract artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Deinze , East Flanders , Belgium |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 2012 |
| Place of death | Deinze |