Netherlands

Lucebert

Germany

Frankfurt

DIE GALERIE

Painting

Artes

Drawing

Untitled

Faust en Mephisto

Woeste hoeve

Der eremit Pascal

Danke Schon

Het waanbeeld

De Carnivoor

Vleesetende Bloem

In het Klaven

Etruskische Krijger

Untitled (19 XI 57)

Innige Dans

Untitled (89. XII. 20)

Wrek & Schat

Mysteriespel

Untitled (89. XII.22)

Trampolin

On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk (1924-1994), better known as **Lucebert**, DIE GALERIE is dedicating an anniversary exhibition to him that honors the life and work of this important artist.

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As a prominent member of the artist group **CoBrA**, Lucebert was particularly known for his contributions to abstract art and poetry. He found inspiration in folk, children's and primitive art. Even before he took up painting in his mid-twenties, Lucebert expressed his malaise primarily through poetry. But the visual language soon came to the fore and his work, characterized by spontaneous and revolutionary qualities, was to have a lasting influence on the Dutch art landscape. His brief participation in CoBrA was nevertheless of fundamental importance for him as an artist-poet, because it gave both his poetry and his painting great freedom, spontaneity and joy of experimentation. His work is typically characterized by intentionally awkward human body shapes and fantasy creatures. The psychological aspect of his work is particularly visible in the apparent dialogues between the characters in his imaginary worlds. The myths he created in his paintings and poems are rooted in the human world and full of literary allusions. In the 1960s he worked particularly in the childlike CoBrA style, but this quickly gave way to a cartoonish, demonic worldview, which he continued to represent until his death in 1994. While Lucebert's style of expression changed over the course of his career, despite experimenting with different styles and forms, he maintained a distinctive signature characterized by contrasting colors and spontaneous brushwork. As a contemporary witness, his art was political, social and autobiographical and often called for revolution, reassessment and new beginnings, in the spirit of the CoBrA avant-garde.


Lucebert - 100 Jahre Licht | 100 Years of Light

Lucebert - 100 Jahre Licht | 100 Years of Light

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