Corneille

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Corneille was a Dutch painter and printmaker best known as a co-founder of the postwar avant-garde COBRA art movement, noted for his colorful, expressive, and often childlike imagery.

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Corneille canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf COBRA artist
human
painter
printmaker
activeIn Amsterdam
Paris
artStyle abstract art
expressionism
lyrical abstraction
associatedWith Asger Jorn
COBRA movement
surface form: COBRA group

Christian Dotremont
Constant Nieuwenhuys
Karel Appel
birthName Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo
citizenship Netherlands
countryOfBirth Belgium
countryOfDeath France
dateOfBirth 1922-07-03
dateOfDeath 2010-09-05
era 20th century
21st century
familyName van Beverloo
field painting
printmaking
genre abstract figurative art
figurative art
givenName Cornelis
Guillaume
influencedBy African art
children's drawings
folk art
movement COBRA movement
surface form: COBRA

postwar avant-garde
name Corneille self-link
nationality Dutch
notableFor childlike imagery
co-founding the COBRA art movement
colorful imagery
expressive imagery
placeOfBirth Liège
placeOfDeath Auvers-sur-Oise, France
surface form: Auvers-sur-Oise
subjectMatter birds
fantastical landscapes
flowers
women
workCharacteristic bold colors
simplified forms
spontaneous brushwork

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

COBRA movement foundedBy Corneille
COBRA movement notableMember Corneille
Corneille Van Clève givenName Corneille
Corneille name Corneille self-link
Pierre Corneille familyName Corneille