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Wout Hoeboer
Born in Rotterdam in 1910. He worked, lived and died in Brussels.
Wout Hoeboer is one of the most complex and remarkable Artists of the last century. He was a dadaist in the beginning with H. Arp, and immediately "surrealist" with M. Ernst, Dali, Mondrian, and Magritte. In 1927, the first one man show in La Haye. The exhibition was special because he painted as a Flemish painter. In the same year, he participated in one other important show in Rotterdam with Max Ernst, Hans Arp, and Salvador Dali. In 1935, he left Brussels to work with Magritte. In 1935, he had a significant exhibition in the Steedelick Museum of Amsterdam. In 1936, he organized a show in the Gallery "Center" in Haye about the "Theory of the Abstract" by W. Kandinsky. After that, he had shows in Brussles and Paris. In 1948, he started the "COBRA" group and organized the first show in Brussels. In 1956, he became friends with Bertini, Manzoni, Mesens and Neuheys - also organizing an exhibition in Bogota with Ensor, Magritte, and Delveaux.
Hoeboer contributed and wrote for magazines, theatres and reviews all his life. Including: Temps-Meles, Theatre du Poche, Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Antinomies, etc.
He had hundreds and hundreds of exhibitions all around the world from Palais de Beaux Arts of Brussels to the Musee de Liegi.
In 1973, he began working with Zarathustra Gallery in Milan and in 1981, they dedicated an anthological exhibition to the old master (1927-1981) titled "Pamapadada". |
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