''Het Overzicht'' (

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: ''the Survey'') was a Dutch language literary magazine published in Antwerp,

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, between 1921 and 1925. Until its cessation in 1925 it was the major avant-garde magazine in the country and published a total of 24 issues.

History and profile

''Het Overzicht'' was first published in June 1921. The magazine was subtitled as ''Half-Maandelijks Tijdschrift: Kunst, Letteren, Mensheid''.

Michel Seuphor Fernand Berckelaers (10 March 1901, in Borgerhout – 12 February 1999, in Paris), pseudonym Michel Seuphor (anagram of Orpheus), was a Belgian painter. Seuphor established a literary magazine, ''Het Overzicht'', in Antwerp in 1921. He moved in ...

was the founder of the magazine. Geert Pynenburg was also functional in the foundation. Its headquarters was in Antwerp. During its early years ''Het Overzicht'' was pro-

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. Then it became a

modernist Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...

periodical of European stature and adopted a constructivist,

dadaist Dada () or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916). New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris ...

and

avant-garde The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical ...

approach. It published

poems Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in ...

in their original languages. Michel Seuphor and

Jozef Peeters Jozef Peeters (1895–1960) was a Belgian painter, engraver and graphic artist. In 1913, Jozef Peeters attended for a short time the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts, but was mainly interested by his own experiments. In 1914 he started painti ...

were the editors of ''Het Overzicht'' of which regular contributors included Geert Grub, Georges Walz,

Alice Nahon Alice Nahon (16 August 1896 – 21 May 1933) was a Belgian poet from Antwerp. Biography Alice Nahon was born in Antwerp on 23 August 1896. She was the third child in a family of eleven children. Her father, Gerard L. Nahon, was born in the Neth ...

, , Leo Steiner, Gaston Burssens and

. The last issue of ''Het Overzicht'' was published in February 1925. All issues of the magazine are archived in the Middelheim Museum, Antwerp.

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