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.

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©Jef Verheyen, Hommage à Mondriaan - Monet (Thema 1), INV.0110,

installation view at Stedelijk Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Gent (S.M.A.K.) - photo: Dirk Pauwels

BELGIUM

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

INV. 0504 - Le Grand Pan, 1963-1964
INV. 0492 - Gelati, 1969

Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels

INV. 0136 - Blauwe Lichtboog, 1962

Belfius Art Collection, Brussels

INV. 0254 - La vérité n’est jamais la même, 1975
INV. 0367 - Grand Oeuvre, 1981

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

INV. 0204 - Variatie, 1968
INV. 0505 - Morgen, 1965
INV. 0055 - Zwarte Ruimte – Bonjour Heraklithe, 1959

Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp

INV. 00656 - A/B = B/C, 1965-1966

La Boverie – Musée des Beaux-Arts, Liège

Musée d'Art Abstrait / Musée Renée Magritte, Jette

INV. 0249 - Eon T III, 1972
INV. 0457 - Compositie, 1957

Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent

INV. 0110 - Hommage à Mondriaan - Monet, 1970
INV. 0296 - La Flèche de Zénon, 1971
INV. 0441 - Regendag, 1964-1965
INV. 0442 - Ca y est, 1970
INV. 0443 - Blauwe Compositie, 1958
INV. 0098 - L’oubli de la mort (Gondola rosa), 1965-1966

INV. 0681 - Laser, 1972
INV. 0479 - Zomer, 1979
INV. 0481 - Abyssus, 1978
INV. 0506 - T I V II Diagon, 1974
INV. 0510 - Espace flamand gris, 1961

Axel & May Vervoordt Foundation, Antwerp

INV. 0070 - Cathédrale de la Lumière, 1960
INV. 0712 - Kathedraal, 1967
INV. 0104 - Brazilië I, 1968
INV. 0079 - L’un et L’autre – ni l’un ni l’autre, 1960
INV. 0064 - Zwarte Ruimte / Espace Noir, 1960

FRANCE

Centre Pompidou, Paris

INV. 0147 - Essentie-Aarde (Vlaamse Aarde), 1962

GERMANY

Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkussen

INV. 490 - Zwarte bepaalde van het onbepaalde, 1959

Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

INV. 0084 - Espace flamand, 1960-1961

Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop

INV. 0323 - Megaron Metaponte, 1982

Ruhr-Universität (Sammlung Albert Schulze Vellinghausen), Bochum

Hubertus Schoeller Stiftung/Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum Düren

INV. 0439 - Lichtstroom, 1962
INV. 0183 - Untitled, 1962

Daimler Art Collection Stuttgart/Berlin

INV. 0728 - Espace, 1963

Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen

INV. 0731 - Lichtkolk, 1968

UNITED KINGDOM

Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom (Tate Britain’s Prints and Drawings Room)

INV. 0382 - Laser, 1972
INV. 0383 - Laser, 1972

SWITZERLAND

Kunsthaus, Zürich

Musée Rath, Geneva

Kunstmuseum (A-M & V Loeb Stiftung), Bern

INV. 0794 - Espace transposée, 1970

Kunstmuseum, Sankt Gallen

Kunst Museum Winterthur

ITALY

Biblioteca Nazionale, Milan

Fondazione Boschi Di Stefano, Milan

POLAND

Museum Sztuki, Lodz

BRAZIL

Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro

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