Jef Verheyen

The Belgian ZERO artist Jef Verheyen (1932-1984) became known as the painter of light streams and colour spectra. He experimented not only with light, but also with movement and the invisible as means to evoke natural mechanisms and to reveal universal interrelationships between human beings and the surrounding world. He used geometric principles – his passion for geometry was born out of his interest in mathematics and (Greek) philosophy – as the basis for harmony. Verheyen never gave up on traditional media and materials such as the canvas, paint, and brushes to search for the essence of our nature.

Jef Verheyen

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(c)Jef Verheyen, photo: Jef Verheyen Archive

• 0103 • Brazilië, 1967

Sammlung Lenz, Schönberg, Austria

Painting , 150 x 150 cm with frame

Synthetic resin on canvas

References

Sammlung Lenz Schönberg - Eine europäische Bewegung in der bildenden Kunst von 1958 bis heute / Hannah Weitemeier. - Moskau/München/Stuttgart : Künstlerverband der UdSSR Moskau/Sammlung Lenz Schönberg/Edition Cantz, 1989. - 262 p. : ill. ; 29 cm x 22,9 cm
ZERO. Die europäische Vision – 1958 bis heute. Sammlung Lenz Schönberg, exh. cat., 2003.
Sammlung Lenz Schönberg. Aus der Stille der Zeit – über die Grenzen von Raum, 1992.
Retrospectieve Jef Verheyen, 1932-1984 / Willy Van den Bussche & Léonore Verheyen. - Oostende/Brugge : Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst/Stichting Kunstboek, 1994. - 158 p. : ill. ; 30 x 24.5 cm
Sammlung Lenz Schönberg. ‘…die Kunst von innen bittend…’, exh. cat., 1991.

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