Michel seuphor piet mondrian biography

Belgian painter

Fernand Berckelaers (10 March 1901, in Borgerhout – 12 February 1999, in Paris), pseudonymMichel Seuphor (anagram of Orpheus), was a Belgian painter.^[1][2]

Seuphor established a literary magazine, Het Overzicht, in Antwerp in 1921.^[1][2] He moved in Dutch, Belgian, and French avant-garde circles.

He associated at various points with Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian, and was influenced by their iconic Neo-plasticist works.^[1] Along with Joaquin Torres-Garcia and Pierre Daura, Seuphor founded the abstract artists' group Cercle et Carré which included Wassily Kandinsky and Le Corbusier.^[1][3]

In 1934, Seuphor moved to Anduze in the South of France following his marriage.^[1]

Seuphor wrote and edited five books; A Dictionary of Abstract Painting (Tudor Publishing Co., 1958), Abstract Painting: 50 Years of Accomplishment (Dell Laurel Edition, 1964), "The Scu