Painter, ceramist, Bram Bogart is a Belgian (Dutch by birth) expressionist artist, although very critical of his art, fellow traveler of the CoBrA group.Son of a blacksmith, Abraham van den Boogaart was born in Delft, the Netherlands, in 1921. He will take courses in a technical school, and will be trained as a decorator, while taking correspondence courses in drawing.At the end of his studies, the young...

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  Painter, ceramist, Bram Bogart is a Belgian (Dutch by birth) expressionist artist, although very critical of his art, fellow traveler of the CoBrA group.
  Son of a blacksmith, Abraham van den Boogaart was born in Delft, the Netherlands, in 1921. He will take courses in a technical school, and will be trained as a decorator, while taking correspondence courses in drawing.
  At the end of his studies, the young man works in advertising in Rotterdam. After the Second World War, aged 25, he moved to Paris, at the time when a clash began between cold geometric abstract painting and free abstract-expressionist painting, and where he will be one of the founders of Art Informel; he then works in a workshop alongside the painters Guillaume Corneille, Karel Appel and Dora Tuynman. Initially, he experimented with cubism and figurative drawing, painting flowers, still lifes and self-portraits. In the 1950s, he began working with impasto. Using thick layers of coloured paint, he developed an expressionist style that became increasingly abstract over time.In 1961, with his future wife Leni, he settled permanently in Belgium, and in 1969, became a Belgian citizen. He began working in three dimensions, with a mixture of mortar, siccative, chalk powder, varnish and pigments, applied to large and heavy wooden structures.Bram Bogart has had a large number of solo exhibitions and retrospectives, including at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Museum of Modern Art in Ostend, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, the Espace Muséal du Bellevue in Biarritz and the CoBrA Museum in Amstelveen.Bogart also exhibited frequently in Antwerp and Ghent. In 1971, he represented Belgium at the Venice Biennale. In 2011, the Bogarts presented an exhibition to celebrate his 90th birthday, with all of his monochrome paintings, at the Bernard Jacobson Gallery in London. A retrospective of his work was also exhibited at the Galerie Jean-Luc et Takako Richard in Paris.Bogart died in 2012 in Saint-Trond (Belgium), at the age of 90.  
  
  

  

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