Lucebert (aka Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk; 1924 – 1994) was
a Dutch artist who first became known as the poet of the COBRA movement.
He was born in Amsterdam in 1924. He entered the Institute
for Arts and Crafts in 1938 and took part in the first exhibition of the COBRA
group at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 1949.
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Portrait with beret
Lucebert's talent was discovered when he started working for
his father after school. After half a year of art school, he chose to be
homeless between 1938 and 1947. In 1947, a Franciscan convent offered him a
roof over his head, in exchange for a huge mural painting. Because the nuns
could not appreciate his work, they had it painted over with white paint
entirely.
He belonged to the Dutch literary movement of De Vijftigers.
They were greatly influenced by the European avant-garde movement COBRA. His
art reflects a rather pessimistic view on the world.
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His strong personality appealed to many. As a poet he laid
foundation for a revolutionary innovation of Dutch poetry.
Lucebert's sentence "Alles van waarde is weerloos"
("All things of value are defenceless") on a building in Rotterdam
He died on 10 May 1994 in Alkmaar, Netherlands.
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