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 - OEUVRE

(c)Jef Verheyen, photo: Philipp Schönborn, München, VG Bild-Kunst - Jef Verheyen Archive
• 0097 • Zonnebogen (1/4), 1965
Sammlung Lenz, Schönberg, Austria
Painting , 65 x 65 cm, 81 x 81 cm with frame
Matt lacquer on canvas

This is the first painting in the Gerhard and Anna Lenz Collection, Schönberg, Austria

References
  • The Zero Era: The Lenz Schönberg Collection, Vol. 1, 2009.

  • The Zero Era: The Lenz Schönberg Collection, Vol. 2, 2009.

  • ZERO. Künstler einer europäischen Bewegung. Sammlung Lenz Schönberg 1956-2006, Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg, Salzburg, 2006: ill. p.169.