Lucebert - Compositian with figures

1989
Mixed Media, among others Indian ink and watercolor.
Signed and dated lower left
Framed 78 x 63.5 cm
Work 47 x 33.5 cm

Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk (Amsterdam, 1924 - Alkmaar, 1994), better known as Lucebert, was a Dutch painter and poet. Lucebert studied for six months at the Institute for Applied Arts Education in 1938, after which he fell under the spell of National Socialism at the start of the Second World War. Between 1943 and 1944 he worked voluntarily for the German Arbeitseinsatz. In the 1950s he became the leader of the movement of the Vijftigers, a progressive group of poets that started experimenting with form and content after the Second World War. Lucebert was mainly engaged in poetry at that time. In the sixties his interest shifted to the visual arts, where he occupied himself with painting. In the beginning he was strongly influenced by the Cobra movement, as can also be seen in this work.