Christian Dotremont
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Christian Dotremont | |
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Born | |
Died | 20 August 1979 Tervuren, Belgium | (aged 56)
Nationality | Belgium |
Occupation(s) | painter, poet |
Christian Dotremont, (12 December 1922 – 20 August 1979), was a Belgian painter and poet who was born in Tervuren, Belgium. He was a founding member of the Revolutionary Surrealist Group (1946) and he also founded Cobra together with Danish artist Asger Jorn.[1] He later became well known for his painted poems (French: Peinture mots), which he called logograms.
He died of tuberculosis in Tervuren.
References
- ^ Stewart Home, (1988) The Assault on Culture: Utopian currents from Lettrisme to Class War London : Unpopular Books and Aporia Press ISBN 0-948518-88-X
Bibliography
- Labisse (1946)
- Les jambages au cou (1949)
- Cobra 1948 - 1951 - with an introduction by Christian Dotremont, (1980, Jean-Michel Place)
- Cartes et lettres : correspondance 1966-1979 (1986)
External links
- 5 Logograms in translation [1]
- Christian Dotremont at Galerie Birch
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- People from Tervuren
- Belgian painters
- Abstract painters
- Belgian poets in French
- 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis
- Infectious disease deaths in Belgium
- 20th-century Belgian poets
- Belgian male poets
- 20th-century male writers
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