Corneille

Corneille (Corneille Guillaume Beverloo) starts studying art in Amsterdam in 1940 and attends classes from time to time. Here, he, among others, meets Appel.
During the war, he gets fascinated by Matisse and Picasso, but after the war, he is more impressed by the French School, among others, Pignon.

Corneille had his first exhibition in 1946, he spent some months in Hungary, in Budapest he visited a library and "discovered" the surrealism, and at the same time he got some inspiration from Miro and Klee.

Corneille was best known for radicalizing the conservative Dutch art world in the early 1950s, making modern art not only acceptable but also embraceable. He placed familiar subjects , birds, cats, women, and landscapes in mythological and often childlike contexts, imbuing them with spontaneity and bright, sensual reds.