- Georges Vantongerloo
Georges Vantongerloo (
November 24 ,1886 ,Antwerp –October 5 ,1965 ,Paris ) was a Belgian abstract sculptor and painter and founding member of theDe Stijl group.cite web
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From 1905 to 1909 Vantongerloo studied
Fine Art at the Fine Art Academies in Antwerp and Brussels. Conscripted intoWorld War I , he was wounded in a gas attack and discharged from the army in 1914. During 1916 he metTheo Van Doesburg and the following year he was a co-signator if the first manifesto of theDe Stijl group. Vantongerloo moved to Paris in 1927 and began a correspondence with the Belgian Prime Minister,Henri Jaspar in relation to the design of a bridge over theScheldt atAntwerp . In 1930 he joined theCercle et Carré group in Paris and a year later he was a founding member ofAbstraction-Création .References
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