Amsterdam, 1924 - Alkmaar, 1994
Lucebert, whose real name was Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk, was — and still is — a well- known painter and poet. He began his studies at Amsterdam’s Kunstnijverheidsschool in 1938, leaving after just 18 months but continuing to produce drawings and paintings.
His poetic work was discovered by Gerrit Kouwenaar in 1948. Lucebert became a member of the Dutch Experimental Group and, later, CoBrA. Shortly after taking part in the 1949 CoBrA exhibition in Amsterdam with his poems, Lucebert left the movement.
Although his involvement in CoBrA was only brief and tangential, it was nevertheless of fundamental importance to him as an artist-poet. CoBrA encouraged him and other experimental poets (including Vinkenoog, Kouwenaar, Elburg and Schierbeek) to commit themselves fully to the freedom of language they had hitherto only hesitantly explored. At the same time the movement also impacted on Lucebert’s work as a painter.
During the Fifties Lucebert was subject to many influences, and in this period he concentrated mainly on painting. The myths that he created in his expressionist paintings and his poems were rooted in the human world and full of literary allusions. In the Sixties he became particularly interested in the child-like CoBrA style, but this quickly gave way to a caricaturesque, demonic vision of the world, which he continued to express until his death in 1994.
etching
1967
39 x 49 cm
Edition 190
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etching
1969
35 x 41 cm
Edition 25
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screenprint
1972
30 x 43 cm
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lithograph
1972
40 x 60 cm
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screenprint
1972
30 x 44 cm
Edition 10
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lithograph
1973
34 x 57 cm
Edition 50
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etching
1974
25 x 32 cm
Edition 40
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etching
1975
26 x 41 cm
Edition 20
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screenprint
1978
38 x 47 cm
Edition 30
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etching
1979
20 x 15 cm
Edition 25
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ets
1979
18 x 18 cm
Edition 25
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etching
1979
30 x 25 cm
Edition 25
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etching
1979
50 x 32 cm
Edition 25
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lithograph
1982
32 x 21 cm
Edition 40
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lithograph
1982
32 x 21 cm
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lithograph
1982
32 x 21 cm
Edition 40
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lithograph
1982
54 x 75 cm
Edition 38
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lithograph
1982
54 x 69 cm
Edition 40
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lithograph
1987
50 x 40 cm
Edition 40
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lithograph
1987
41 x 52 cm
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lithograph
1987
41 x 52 cm
Edition 40
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lithograph
1987
41 x 52 cm
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lithograph
1987
41 x 52 cm
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lithograph
1987
41 x 52 cm
Edition 40
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screenprint
1987
66 x 49 cm
Edition 40
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lithograph
1988
77 x 55 cm
Edition 50
€ 1.250