Corneille

1922: Corneille Guillaume Beverloo is born on 4 July in Liège, Belgium.

1942: Meets Karel Appel while studying at the Rijksakademie of Fine Arts in Amsterdam.

1946: Has his first solo exhibition at Beerenhuys in Groningen.

1947: First trips to Paris, Budapest and North Africa.

1948: Co-founds the art group CoBrA in Paris together with, among others, the painters Karel Appel and Constant. Co-founds the REFLEX movement.

1949: First CoBrA exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

1951: Corneille undertakes a trip to the Hoggar Mountains in southern Algeria, which has a lasting effect on his painting. The CoBrA group disbands.

1956: Receives the Guggenheim Netherlands Prize.

1962: First solo exhibition at the Lefebre Gallery in New York.

1966–1967: Retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

1972: Awarded the first prize of the Ibiza Grafic in Ibiza.

1975–1980: Trips to China, Indonesia and Japan.

1997: Retrospective at the CoBrA Museum in Amstelveen on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

1998: First retrospective in the German-speaking realm at the Museum Bochum.

2010: Corneille dies in a hospital near Paris on September 5th.