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Jean Lucebert BIOGRAPHY
1924 Amsterdam - 1994 Alkmaar. Known for: Frescoes, murals, drawings, prints, poetry.
The Dutch artist Lucebert, actually Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk, studied from 1936 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 1943/44, he was interned by the Gestapo. After his release in 1945,... Read full biography
The Dutch artist Lucebert, actually Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk, studied from 1936 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 1943/44, he was interned by the Gestapo. After his release in 1945, the artist adopted the pseudonym ‘Lucebert’, meaning 'The Bringer of Light'. In 1948, Lucebert and a... Read full biography
The Dutch artist Lucebert, actually Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk, studied from 1936 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 1943/44, he was interned by the Gestapo. After his release in 1945, the artist adopted the pseudonym ‘Lucebert’, meaning 'The Bringer of Light'. In 1948, Lucebert and a number of Dutch fellow artists founded the literary avant-garde group ‘Experimentele Groep in Holland’. One year later, he also joined the artist group CoBrA, which had been founded by Asger Jorn,... Read full biography
The Dutch artist Lucebert, actually Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk, studied from 1936 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 1943/44, he was interned by the Gestapo. After his release in 1945, the artist adopted the pseudonym ‘Lucebert’, meaning 'The Bringer of Light'. In 1948, Lucebert and a number of Dutch fellow artists founded the literary avant-garde group ‘Experimentele Groep in Holland’. One year later, he also joined the artist group CoBrA, which had been founded by Asger Jorn, Constant, Corneille, Karel Appel, Christian Dotremont and Joseph Noiret in Paris. Lucebert’s poetry was mainly influenced by Dadaism and Surrealism, while his paintings were deeply related to works by Asger Jorn and Jean Dubuffet. The artist has been... Read full biography
The Dutch artist Lucebert, actually Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk, studied from 1936 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 1943/44, he was interned by the Gestapo. After his release in 1945, the artist adopted the pseudonym ‘Lucebert’, meaning 'The Bringer of Light'. In 1948, Lucebert and a number of Dutch fellow artists founded the literary avant-garde group ‘Experimentele Groep in Holland’. One year later, he also joined the artist group CoBrA, which had been founded by Asger Jorn, Constant, Corneille, Karel Appel, Christian Dotremont and Joseph Noiret in Paris. Lucebert’s poetry was mainly influenced by Dadaism and Surrealism, while his paintings were deeply related to works by Asger Jorn and Jean Dubuffet. The artist has been presented to an international audience since 1949. His most important exhibitions include the docume... Read full biography
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Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk
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The Dutch artist Lucebert, actually Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk, studied from 1936 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 1943/44, he was interned by the Gestapo. After his release in 1945, the artist adopted the pseudonym ‘Lucebert’, meaning 'The Bringer of Light'.
In 1948, Lucebert and a number of Dutch fellow artists founded the literary avant-garde group ‘Experimentele Groep in Holland’. One year later, he also joined the artist group CoBrA, which had been founded by Asger Jorn, Constant, Corneille, Karel Appel, Christian Dotremont and Joseph Noiret in Paris. Lucebert’s poetry was mainly influenced by Dadaism and Surrealism, while his paintings were deeply related to works by Asger Jorn and Jean Dubuffet.
The artist has been presented to an international audience since 1949. His most important exhibitions include the documenta II (1959), the documenta III (1964) as well as retrospectives at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Marlborough Gallery in London and the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen. (tm)Biography from Auktionhaus Geble
Jean Lucebert (also known as Swaanswijk-Lucebert, Lubertus) founded the Experimentle Groep in Holland in 1948. He was also a founding member of the COBRA group in Paris.
Lucebert was a participant in documenta II (1959) and documenta III (1964), and took part in his first museum exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.