Saturday, March 22, 2014

Lucebert

Lucebert (aka Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk; 1924 – 1994) was a Dutch artist who first became known as the poet of the COBRA movement.
He was born in Amsterdam in 1924. He entered the Institute for Arts and Crafts in 1938 and took part in the first exhibition of the COBRA group at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 1949.
Portrait with beret
Lucebert's talent was discovered when he started working for his father after school. After half a year of art school, he chose to be homeless between 1938 and 1947. In 1947, a Franciscan convent offered him a roof over his head, in exchange for a huge mural painting. Because the nuns could not appreciate his work, they had it painted over with white paint entirely.
He belonged to the Dutch literary movement of De Vijftigers. They were greatly influenced by the European avant-garde movement COBRA. His art reflects a rather pessimistic view on the world.
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His strong personality appealed to many. As a poet he laid foundation for a revolutionary innovation of Dutch poetry.
Lucebert's sentence "Alles van waarde is weerloos" ("All things of value are defenceless") on a building in Rotterdam
He died on 10 May 1994 in Alkmaar, Netherlands.

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