Contemporary art Antwerp school
Jef Verheyen
Heist-op-den-Berg 06.07.1932 — Apt 02.03.1984
Jef Verheyen is a Belgian and French artist, representative of the last phase of modernism, known as a painter of light and color.
Verheyen was educated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and at NHISKA, then moved to France, took up ceramics and became interested in abstract painting. Verheyen's monochrome works are now considered part of the canon of Belgian abstract art.
1932–1984