Hubertus Johannus Mengels - Artist Info

About Hubertus Johannus Mengels

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    Hubertus Johannes (Ber) Mengels, 1921-1995
    (Translated from Dutch)

    Hubertus Johannes (Ber) Mengels, was born in Heerlen, Holland.

    He had a number of drawing courses and a course of airplane engineering. He had developed himself not only as a painter but also in many areas, by silencing his all-encompassing curiosity by reading a lot. His interests were world literature, art history, police, engineering, psychology, and philosophy.

    In addition, he preferred Wilhelm Reich, Jung, Freud, the centuries-old pessimist; and Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, of whom he knew whole quotes from his head. He was also interested in the Oriental Zen philosophy. He also learned a lot from ethnography, partly because of the m...

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