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Georges Vantongerloo (November 24, 1886, Antwerp–October 5, 1965, Paris) was a Belgian abstract sculptor and painter and founding member of the De Stijl group.[1]

Life

From 1905 to 1909 Vantongerloo studied Fine Art at the Fine Art Academies in Antwerp and Brussels. Conscripted into World War I, he was wounded in a gas attack and discharged from the army in 1914. During 1916 he met Theo Van Doesburg and the following year he was a co-signator of the first manifesto of the De Stijl group. Vantongerloo moved to Paris in 1927 and began a correspondence with the Belgian Prime Minister, Henri Jaspar in relation to the design of a bridge over the Scheldt at Antwerp. In 1930 he joined the Cercle et Carré group in Paris and a year later he was a founding member of Abstraction-Création.

References

1. ^ "Biography". Georges Vantongerloo. Annely Juda Fine Art. Archived from the original on 2006-04-28. http://web.archive.org/web/20060428124318/http://www.annelyjudafineart.co.uk/artists/vantongerloo/gvbiography.html. Retrieved 2006-08-01.

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