Max Loreau

Max Loreau (7 June 1928 – 7 January 1990) was a 20th-century Belgian philosopher, poet and art critic.

Life and career
Born in Brussels, Max Loreau was a professor of modern philosophy at the University of Brussels.

He was interested in a number of movements ranging from the Renaissance to Cobra. His work focused on artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Guillaume Corneille, and Asger Jorn. A comprehensive study of the logograms by Christian Dotremont was published in 1975; Loreau also worked with Pierre Alechinsky, who helped him to publish L'Épreuve. He died in 1990.

Loreau's philosophy is rooted primarily in phenomenology.

Publications
Posthumous :
 * 1966: (essay).
 * 1967:.
 * 1967: (poems).
 * 1971: (tirage limité).
 * 1973: (essay).
 * 1973: (essay).
 * 1975:
 * 1976: (short stories).
 * 1977: (poems).
 * 1980: (essay).
 * 1980: (essay)
 * 1986: (poems).
 * 1987: (essay)
 * 1989: (essay)
 * 1990: (poems).
 * 1997:
 * 1998:
 * 2001: (essay)
 * 2005:
 * 2005:
 * Poemes-Poesie, Prefazione e traduzione italiana con testo a fronte di Adriano Marchetti, Campanotto Editore, Pasian di Prato, 2012.ISBN 978-88-1292-3.
 * L’Epreuve-La prova, prefazione e traduzione italiana con testo a fronte, a cura di Adriano Marchetti, Panozzo Editore, Rimini, 2010.ISBN 978-88-7472-139-9
 * Opera da camera-Dans l’Éclat du Moment et Le Matin d’Orphé, Prefazione di Michel Deguy, Introduzione e traduzione italiana di Adriano Marchetti, Panozzo Editore, Rimini, 2005 ISBN 88-7472-056-4