Cobra (group)

(Cornelis Guillaume van Beverloo) was born in Liege in Belgium in 1922, but of Dutch ancestry. (Cobra group).
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. The African people, rituals, forms and colours have inspired many artists. One of them is Corneille, the well known Dutch painter.
Corneille, together with Karel Appel, started the Experimental Group in 1948 and joined Cobra in the same year.As a co-founder of COBRA-the famed experimental artists group in 1948, he became a leading abstract expressionist painter and printmaker along with such notables as Appel, Alechinksy, Jorn and Dubbuffet. In the mid 1950's he travelled and exhibited throughout Western Europe. He first came to the United States in 1958 having two years earlier won First Honorable Mention at the Carnegie Institute. Here he was heralded for his spirited and imaginative works. Unlike others, Corneille packed form and content in an otherwise restricted genre. He was soon presented with many prizes and awards and his works were collected by museums in South America, Africa and Australia.
Africa is Corneille's passion. He has travelled through this continent several times, and these travels have influenced his work decidedly.The sun, the contrast between chaos and order, birds, masks and women - especially women - inspire Corneille and appear to be the most important themes in his work.

His work is exhibited in all major museums of modern art in the world.

Main Exhibition
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1946 Het Beerenhuis, Groningue, Pays-Bas
1947 Europai Iskola, Budapest, Hongrie
1950 Galerie Birch, Copenhague, Danemark
1951 Galerie Martinet et Michels, Amsterdam
1951 Galerie T'Venster, Rotterdam
1953 Kunstkabinett Horemans, Anvers
1954 Galerie Colette Allendy, Paris
1956 Galerie Craven, Paris
1956 Palais des Beaux arts, Bruxelles
1956 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1956 Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Pays-Bas
1957 Musée de Curaçao, Antilles Néerlandaises
1959 Galerie Espace, Haarlem, Pays-Bas
1959 Galerie Legendre, Paris
1960 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1961 Galerie Ariel, Paris
1961 Gemeente Museum, La Haye, Pays-Bas
1961 Brook street Gallery, Londres
1961 KB Galleri, Oslo
1962 Lefebre Gallery, New York
1962 Galerie Mathias Fels, Paris
1963 Galerie del Naviglio, Milan
1963 Musée d'Antibes
1963 Galleri Blanche, Stockholm
1963 Galerie Le Point Cardinal
1963 Galerie Creuzevault, Paris
1964 Galerie Antonio de Souza, Mexico
1964 Lefebre Gallery, New York
1965 Galleria Schwarz, Milan
1965 Centre culturel, Hilversum, Pays-Bas
1965 Galerie Stangl, Munich
1965 Lefebre Gallery, New York
1966 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1966 Rétrospective à la Kunstverein, Düsseldorf
1966 Galeria Relevo, Rio de Janeiro
1967 Galerie Kaleidoscope, Gand, Belgique
1967 Lefebre Gallery, New York
1968 Galerie Espace, Amsterdam
1968 Galerie Michel Cassé, Paris
1969 Galerie Stangl, Munich
1969 Galerie Ivan Spence, Ibiza, Espagne
1970 Galerie Ariel, Paris
1970 Galerie La Pochade, Paris
1970 Lefebre Gallery, New York
1970 Galerie Ivan Spence, Ibiza, Espagne
1971 Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris
1971 Palais Walderdorf, Trier, Allemagne
1971 Galleria d'Arte, Trieste, Italie
1971 Kunstverein, Salzbourg, Autriche
1971 Lefebre Gallery, New York
1972 Galleria 70, Potenza, Italie
1972 Schillerhof, Graz, Autriche
1974 Galleria La Medusa, Rome
1974 Lefebre Gallery, New York
1974 Galerie Montjoie, Bruxelles
1974 Palazzo Buonacorsi, Macerata, Italie
1974 Galerie Michaud, Florence, Italie
1974 Palais des Beaux Arts, Charleroi, Belgique
1974 Musée des Beaux Arts, Gand, Belgique
1974 Studio Erre, Rome, Italie
1975 Galleria del Cavallino, Rome
1975 Petite Galerie, Rio de Janeiro
1975 Galerie l'Oeil de Boeuf, Paris
1975 Musée d'Art Moderne, Sao Paulo, Brésil
1975 Galerie Espace, Amsterdam
1975 Institut Néerlandais, Paris
1975 Galleria Gian Ferrari, Milan
1975 Galleria CM, Rome
1975 Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, USA
1975 Lefebre Gallery, New York
1975 Galleria Gregory, Rome
1975 Galerie Paul Bruck, Luxembourg
1975 Galerie Artcurial, Bruxelles
1976 Galerie Documenta, Copenhague
1976 Centro d'Arte, Sarrono, Italie
1976 Galerie Rijs, Trondheim, Norvège
1976 Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Paris
1976 Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg, Danemark
1976 Lefebre Gallery, New York
1977 Galerie Espace, Amsterdam
1977 Galerie Documenta, Copenhague
1977 Maison Bernard, Caracas, Venezuela
1978 Galerie Orientale, Genève
1978 Galleri Kända Malare, Jönköping, Suède
1978 Galleria Bonaparte, Milan
1979 Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Paris
1979 Galerie l'Oeil de Boeuf, Paris
1979 New Gallery, Jabbeke, Belgique
1979 Galerie Maeyaert, Ostende, Belgique
1980 Galerie Delta, Rotterdam, Pays-Bas
1980 Galerie Michel Cassé, Paris
1980 Galerie Reflex, Amsterdam
1981 Galerie Inter Art, Göteborg, Suède
1981 Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Paris
1981 Galerie Hammerlund's, Oslo
1981 Galerie de Kuil, La Haye, Pays-Bas
1981 Galerie Jas, Utrecht, Pays-Bas
1982 Galerie Krikhaar, Amsterdam
1982 Galerie GKM, Fiac, Paris
1983 Galerie Academia, Salzburg, Autriche
1983 Galleri Huset, Copenhague
1983 Galleri Flindt, Aarhus, Pays-Bas
1983 Galerie GKM, Stockholm artfair
1983 Galerie Bieman de Haas, Amsterdam
1984 Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Floride
1984 Fine Art Gallery, Tokyo
1984 Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg, Danemark
1984 Galerie Banchov, Tokyo
1984 Galerie GKM, Stockholm artfair
1984 Galerie GKM, Malmö, Suède
1985 Galerie Ostermalm, Stockholm
1985 Institut Français, Stockholm
1985 Galerie Huset, Copenhague
1985 Galerie GKM, Fiac, Paris
1985 Galerie Krikhaar, Amsterdam
1986 Galerie Academia, Salzburg, Autriche
1986 Galerie Pelin, Helsinki
1986 Galerie Jas, Utrecht, Pays-Bas
1986 Galerie GKM, Fiac, Paris
1986 Galerie GKM, Malmö, Suède
1987 Galerie GKM, art Jonction, Nice, France
1987 Galleria San Carlo, Milan ...

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