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: Hubertus Schoeller Stiftung/Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum Düren, Germany - Jef Verheyen Archive
• 0439 • Lichtstroom, 1962
Hubertus Schoeller Stiftung/Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum Düren, Germany
Painting , 100 x 66 cm
matt lacquer on canvas
References
  • Dorothea Eimert and Hans-Peter Riese (eds.), ... stets konkret. Die Hubertus Schoeller Stiftung, exh. cat. Leopold-Hoesch-Museum (02.05.2004 - 20.06.2004), Cologne: Wienand Verlag, 2004.

  • 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

  • Anette Kuhn (ed.), ZERO – Eine europäische Avantgarde, exh. cat., published by Galerie Heseler, Co-published by Galerie Neher and Mittelrhein Museum, 1992.