Guillaume Cornelisvan Beverloo was a Belgian-Dutch painter and printmaker, and one of the founders of the CoBrA movement. His art is characterized by intense colors, free lines, and recurring motifs such as women, birds, and imaginary landscapes, reflecting a poetic and fantastical universe. Between expressive gestures and visionary imagination, his works explore creative freedom and the joy of color, cementing his status as a central figure in post-World War II European art.
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.
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