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Jef Verheyen, also known as Jef Jozef Verheyen (Itegem 6 July 1932 - Apt, 2 March 1984) was a Belgian painter and member of the Group ZERO.

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1 Biography

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Biography


Photo Eve O’Kelly, exhibition Langen Foundation.

Verheyen was born in Itegem ( Belgium ) on the 6th of July 1932. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in  Antwerp  and at the Higher Institute in the classes painting, drawing and ceramics (with Olivier Strebelle, 1946-1954). It is there that he met Dani Franque, ceramist, who became his wife. In 1954 they open a ceramists shop together: L'atelier 14, right in front of the house of Rubens. From 1956 on they participate to several exhibitions and salons in Belgium with their ceramics. Verheyen painted more and more and travelled to Italy (Milan) where he met P.Manzoni, R.Crippa and Lucio Fontana. Verheyen was one of the founders of G-58. He publishes"Essentialisme" and works in Antwerp with P.De Vree and E.Van Anderlecht to the foundation of the "Nieuwe Vlaamse School". With this artist he paints 10 paintings: Ni l'un ni l'autre. ( Neither one nor the other ) He meets G.Uecker in the Hessenhuis ( Antwerp ) and from then on his work is in most of the ZERO exhibitions. Jef Verheyen collaborates with the members of the group and has an important role in the contacts between ZERO and Belgian artists. In 1974 he went to live in the south of France with his family. Retrospective exhibitions in Brussels and Geneva. In the early ’80 he publishes his etchings with poems and texts of Guy Vaes & Ivo Michiels. Verheyen dies of a heart attack in an action on the 2nd of March 1984 on the judo tatami in Apt.

•	The main public collections in Belgium include paintings of Jef Verheyen. In Europe you will discover his work in museums all over the continent, a selection: Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen; Kunst-museum Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf; Jozef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop; Sammlung Universität, Bochum; Kunsthaus, Zürich; Musée Rath, Genève; Kunstmuseum, Bern; Kunstmuseum Sankt-Gallen,Sankt-Gallen;  Bibliotheca Nazionale, Fondazione Boschi-Di Stefano & Fondazione Lucio Fontana,Milan.