Cornelis Corneille Van Beverloo 1922 -

Cornelis van Beverloo, better known under his pseudonym Corneille, is a Belgian artist born in 1922 in Liege in Belgium. He is also known as a Dutch master painter, printmaker, ceramicist and writer.

Corneille studied art at the Academy of Art in Amsterdam, Holland. 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 group in Denmark, which has had 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.

The poetic Corneille was strongly influenced by Miro and Klee. After the group dissolved in 1951 he moved to Paris and began collecting African art. These primitive artifacts became evident in his works, which began to take on a more imaginative style, like landscapes seen from a birds eye view, exotic birds and stylised forms.

Today Corneille lives and works in Paris, he makes visits to Israel where he works with the Jaffa Atelier. SELECTED MUSEUMS Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Chazen Museum of Art Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands Ramat-Gan Museum of Art, Israel