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Christian Dotremont Tervuren, 1922° - 1979†

Christian Dotremont Tervuren, 1922° - 1979†

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Christian Dotremont was a Belgian painter, poet, and writer, and one of the central figures of the Cobra movement. Together with Joseph Noiret, he authored the pamphlet "La cause était entendue", which officially founded Cobra. Dotremont and Pierre Alechinsky became the driving forces of the movement in Belgium, with Dotremont serving as its secretary general.

Earlier, Dotremont had been closely involved in surrealism and co-founded the group "Le Surréalisme Révolutionnaire". He collaborated intensively with painters such as Asger Jorn and Alechinsky, merging text and painting in the so-called peinture-mots. As a writer, he also made his mark with the autobiographical novel "La Pierre et l'Oreiller" (1955, Dutch translation: "De steen en het oorkussen").

From the 1960s onwards, Dotremont developed his signature "logograms": self-invented poems in his own handwriting, executed in black ink on canvas or paper, a striking form of visual poetry in painting. His monumental work "Sept écritures", created in collaboration with Alechinsky, can be seen at the Delta metro station in Oudergem.

Christian Dotremont

Christian Dotremont




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