Christian Dotremont, (; 12 December 1922 – 20 August 1979), was a Belgian painter and poet who was born in

Tervuren Tervuren (; ) is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish region of Belgium. The municipality comprises the villages of Duisburg, Tervuren proper, Vossem and Moorsel. On 1 January 2006, Tervuren had a total population o ...

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. He was a founding member of the Revolutionary Surrealist Group (1946) and he also founded

COBRA COBRA or Cobra, often stylized as CoBrA, was a European avant-garde art group active from 1948 to 1951. The name was coined in 1948 by Christian Dotremont from the initials of the members' home countries' capital cities: Copenhagen (Co), Brussels ...

together with Danish artist

Asger Jorn Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 – 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International. The largest collection of Jorn's works� ...

. In this capacity he was responsible for bringing

Henri Lefebvre Henri Lefebvre ( ; ; 16 June 1901 – 29 June 1991) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for furthering the critique of everyday life, for introducing the concepts of the right to the city and the production of social ...

's ''Critique de la vie quotidienne'' (1946) to the group's attention. He later became well known for his painted poems (French: ''Peinture mots''), which he called

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s. He died of

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in Buizingen.

Gallery

Sept Ecritures by Pierre Alechinsky (painter) and Christian Dotremont (poet), exposed in the Delta metro station (Auderghem, Belgium).jpg, ''Sept Ecritures'' by Dotremont and Alechinsky

References

Bibliography

* ''Labisse'' (1946) * ''Les jambages au cou'' (1949) * ''Cobra 1948 - 1951'' - with an introduction by Christian Dotremont, (1980, Jean-Michel Place) * ' (1986)

External links

* 5 Logograms in translatio

1922 births 1979 deaths People from Tervuren 20th-century Belgian painters Belgian abstract painters Belgian poets in French 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in Belgium 20th-century Belgian poets Belgian male poets 20th-century Belgian male writers {{Belgium-painter-stub