Christian Dotremont, (; 12 December 1922 – 20 August 1979), was a Belgian painter and poet who was born in

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. He was a founding member of the Revolutionary Surrealist Group (1946) and he also founded COBRA together with Danish artist

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. In this capacity he was responsible for bringing

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's ''Critique de la vie quotidienne'' (1946) to the group's attention. He later became well known for his painted poems (French: ''Peinture mots''), which he called

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s. He died of

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in Buizingen.

Gallery

Sept Ecritures by Pierre Alechinsky (painter) and Christian Dotremont (poet), exposed in the Delta metro station (Auderghem, Belgium).jpg, ''Sept Ecritures'' by Dotremont and Alechinsky

References

Bibliography

* ''Labisse'' (1946) * ''Les jambages au cou'' (1949) * ''Cobra 1948 - 1951'' - with an introduction by Christian Dotremont, (1980, Jean-Michel Place) * ' (1986)

External links

* 5 Logograms in translatio

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