corneille
corneille
Date of Birth: 3 July 1922
Biography
Corneille – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo (3 July 1922 – 5 September 2010), better known under his pseudonym Corneille, was a Dutch artist.
Corneille was born in Liege, Belgium. His parents were Dutch, and when he was 12, he moved to the Netherlands. He studied art at the Academy of Art in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.
He was one of the founders of the REFLEX movement in 1948 and in 1949 he was also one of the founders of the COBRA movement, which had a great influence on Scandinavian art. He was active within the group from the beginning, not only painting but also publishing poetry in the Cobra magazine. He was a cofounder of the Experimentele Groep in Holland.