Karel Maes
Illustration — A photograph of Karel Maes posing in front of one of his works (1929) Karel Maes (1900–1974) was an avant-garde painter, lithographer, furniture and set designer, and art critic. He was one of the foremost abstract artists in 20th-century Belgium.
Karel Maes
Karel Maes · Photo's from the catalogue 'Karel Maes', published by Museum Felix De Boeck and Herman Maes (also the co-author of the wikipedia-text) · Public domain
- Born
- 1900 · Mol.
- Died
- 1974 · Brussels.
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Occupation
- designer · draftsperson · painter
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Illustration — A photograph of Karel Maes posing in front of one of his works (1929) Karel Maes (1900–1974) was an avant-garde painter, lithographer, furniture and set designer, and art critic. He was one of the foremost abstract artists in 20th-century Belgium.
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Maes was born in Mol, Belgium, in 1900 and studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels, before also training as a teacher at the École Normale Charles Buls. In 1922 he took part in the International Congress of Progressive Artists in Düsseldorf, and sat in the Constructivist International. He was part of the group that founded the avant-garde Brussels art magazine 7 Arts (1922–1928). He was also involved with the Dutch-language review Het Overzicht, sometimes designing its covers, as well as publishing in Der Sturm and De Stijl. He died in Brussels in 1974.
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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Recorded with the gender male. Institutional cataloguing adds that karel Maes was born on 25 December 1900. Maes died on 11 July 1974. Institutional cataloguing adds that karel Maes is recorded with the occupation designer. It is also recorded that karel Maes is recorded with the occupation draftsperson. Recorded with the occupation painter. Recorded as a citizen of Belgium.
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