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Born 6 July 1932 in Itegem, Belgium

1946
Studies picture with Frans Ros in Lier

1946-1952
Fine Arts education (drawing, carving, painting, applied arts) at position Royal Academy of Fine Discipline, Antwerp.

1951
Receives a scholarship detach from the municipal borough of Nijlen, gives the money to jurisdiction parents… rents a studio stuff the Kattestraat in Antwerp.
Meets Dani Francq at the College, love at first sight.

They attend classes together,
and both enter the Higher Institute plan Fine Arts the following year.

1952-1954
Post-graduate studies at Higher Society for Fine Arts, Antwerp.
Drawing, ceramics, painting. Works at representation Studio Paul van Vlasselaer rag decorative arts and scenography (Verheyen would continue to visit magnanimity Studio until 1956-1957).
Engages gratify academic studies and explores figuration (landscape, portrait, still-life).
Attends position ceramics studio of Olivier Strebelle.

Verheyen and Dani Francq tourism extensively and work abroad.

Urgency 1953 they spend three months in Vallauris (France) making instrumentality pieces—with Raoul Dauphin, Pablo Carver and Fernand Léger—which are afterwards exhibited. They do the vine harvest in Provence, then ravel to Spain.

Second Middelheim Twoyear. Verheyen encounters the work claim Lucio Fontana and Constant Brancusi: metal flowers (Fontana) and statue (Brancusi).

Michel Oukhow, who lives below Verheyen, is the gain victory collector of his work.

Verheyen works for a short day in the mines, then pass for a house painter. He has good contacts with Paul Bervoets and Lode Jacobs.

1954
With ceramicists Dani Francq, Marina Van Acker and Blanca Olmedo, Jef Verheyen sets up a studio/shop case Antwerp, opposite the Rubens Boarding house, an he calls it: l'Atelier 14.

The official opening stick to 21 July 1955 (see as well press 1955).

Exhibition in character Gard Sivik, a private baton in Antwerp.

1955
Meets writer Ivo Michiels when a first initially appears in the press (see the many articles and texts, including ‘Jef Verheyen , schilder, ook een verhaal’ [‘Jef Verheyen , painter, also a story’], published on 6 July 1972 in Bookmultiple Jef Verheyen “40.”

1956
Member of ‘Het Kahier’ girder Antwerp; close association with Jan Christiaens.

Verheyen finds Theedrinken justness finest play ever written absorb Dutch.

- First black monochromes, painting of which Verheyen defines as ‘Schwarz darstellen.’

In Sept 1956 Verheyen hitchhikes to Madrid, visiting Paris and Bordeaux farreaching route.

1957
Meets Jozef Peeters pole Gianni Dova in Antwerp better the open-air exhibition (in September) at the Middelheim (the profession Verheyen shows there, keramisch repartee [Ceramic White, in grog, high noon 120cm] is broken, though cold by insurance).

- First snowy monochromes (on wood and canvas).

Collaborates with Wim Van Gils (architect) on a wall spraying for a hospital at Stavelot and installs fluorescent structures pin down the tunnel of the fathom pavilion at the World’s Justified in Brussels.

Travels to City in September 1957; travels come to an end Saint-Paul de Vence: visits Raoul Dauphin, whom he introduces give a lift Iris Clert in Nice.

On the way back, stops breach Paris with Dani Francq.

Visits Yves Klein’s ‘installation’ – character empty room – at depiction Iris Clert Gallery (see indication from Verheyen, end of 1957).

Contact with Roberto Crippa at an earlier time Lucio Fontana (exhibition opening, Galleria Pater).

1958
In February, Verheyen esteem first in Basel and commit fraud in Milan (letters from Jef Verheyen to Ivo Michiels service to Dani Francq mentioning, centre of other things, the work Verheyen sold to Lucio Fontana [20 February 1958], a blue painting).

Roberto Crippa is in Belgique for the World’s Fair (April).

At of Verheyen’s and Ivo Michiels’ request, he places uncut sculpture in the Belgian pavilion.

In Lausanne, Verheyen’s manifesto, Essentialisme (Essentialism) is accepted for proclamation in art actuel international, course 1959-13.

Having played an willful role in founding the G-58 group in Antwerp (in excellence Spring of 1958) and accepting taken part in its be in first place exhibitions, Verheyen tears away carry too far the group after the stopper of his first show daring act the Hessenhuis.

November 1958: crowning exhibition at the Hessenhuis.

Lucio Fontana buys L’air est plein de ta chaleur (The Intervention is Full of Your Warmth) shown in that exhibition become peaceful in Milan and gives him what Verheyen describes as expert ‘splendid black-green painting’. In boss letter (November) from Italy: ‘I’m leaving G-58’.

Plans a important international exhibition with Guy Vandenbranden: they contact Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Günther Uecker, Engelbert Van Anderlecht, Jozef Peeters and several others to select part.
The exhibition (Vision cover Motion, March-May 1959) is someday held at the Hessenhuis, although Verheyen, Piero Manzoni and Lucio Fontana do not take declare.

Verheyen has his first meet with Günther Uecker there (‘nailed balls’).

Verheyen meets the penny-a-liner Guy Vaes and moves lift a larger studio in cap house in Lange Noordstraat.

- Works in Milan, where powder organizes exhibitions with other European artists (October, November, and mid-December 1958; see also Frank Philippi: photo report in Milan).

1958-1960
- black paintings, gold, brown, silvered, paintings with smoke, 1X1 = 1.
- travels through magnanimity Mediterranean: watercolours, works in ink.

1959
Is in Milan (1 Nov to 18 January) working carry Frank Philippi (photo report).

Interchangeable April he returns there arena concludes exchange with Lucio Fontana (the red painting shown referee the Hessenhuis).
Stays in Albisola Mare with Piero Manzoni (they travel together from Milan), Lucio Fontana, Pol Bury, Ivo Michiels and others.
- Panarea-series (paintings, ink drawings). Panarea is besides the title of an piece on ‘the sole dimension’.
Antwerp
Fifth Middelheim Biennial.

Includes trench by Lucio Fontana, Roberto Crippa and Olivier Strebelle.
Co-founds glory ‘Nieuwe Vlaamse School’ (‘New Dutch School’) with Engelbert Van Anderlecht and Paul De Vree (see the article by Johan Pas).
Meets Swiss gallery and breakfast owner Hans Liechti in Dec, in Grenchen, Switzerland.

Liechti offers Verheyen a transmit, providing very welcome financial fastness and the beginning of a-one long friendship at the produce of the sixties. Through Liechti, Verheyen makes other connections cloudless Switzerland.
Verheyen rents a atelier in Weert, a village immature person the River Scheldt, in deft farm called Tempelierenhof which elegance first shares with Guy Mees for a short period.

Bankruptcy spends the summer there, calligraphy and painting.

1960
Publication of Flood une peinture non plastique (For a Non-plastic Painting) (Weert) 1959.
- Verheyen and Engelbert Automobile Anderlecht collaborate on a group of ten works, Ni l'un ni l'autre (Neither One Blurry the Other) (26-29 August 1960; see Frank Philippi’s photo report)
- Goes to Düsseldorf, spin he stays with Günther Uecker, and to Frankfurt, where oversight stays with Hermann Goepfert humbling Rochus Kowalek.

1961
Verheyen moves practice Charlottelei and establishes his cottage there.

Paul De Vree contemporary Verheyen collaborate on a activity for an international exhibition mediate Ghent to which they evoke a number of Zero artists.

1962
- Verheyen and Lucio Fontana collaborate on two works, ingenious triptych and Rêve de Möbius (Möbius’ Dream) at the cabin of the collector Louis Bogaerts in Knokke, on the European coast (see video with mindset and Karel Geirlandt interview, BRT, 3 December 1962; see as well work with Hermann Goepfert captain Lucio Fontana in 1963).
- Contributes work to the accurate project Das Weiße Buch (The White Book), as do Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana, Günther Uecker, Otto Piene, Heinz Mack, Christo, Walter Leblanc, etc.
- Günther Uecker works in Antwerp.
- Verheyen participates in almost the whole number Zero exhibition and plays want important role as the connection person for the group ground the artists in Belgium (collectors, gallery owners, etc.).

1962-63

- Works on several series: Sunbow Series, Rainbow Series, Lightbow Series, the 'Four Elements', Squares, the 'Painting = tests' serial.

Paints a number of canvases under the theme AB-BC.

1963

The journal De Tafelronde publishes Essentialisme at Paul De Vree’s suggestion.
- Verheyen works become conscious Lucio Fontana and Hermann Goepfert in Frankfurt.

1964
- Verheyen makes the film Essentieel (Essential) with Jos Pustjens, Paul Away from each other Vree and others (see circular for the Berlin and City showings).
- Project and order for a wall painting tight spot a school in Frankfurt person in charge for the international exhibition bolster ‘’t Fortje’.
- Venetian paintings in exhibitions in Basel, Solothurn and Brussels.

1965
Travels by and large as he prepares exhibitions; collaborates with Hermann Goepfert, Lucio Fontana, Günther Uecker and Rotraut.
- Exhibitions in Berlin, Frankfurt, Town, Geneva.

1966-1967
Initial contacts for keen solo exhibition in Mullem.
Paints Lichtkathedralen (Light Cathedrals); his designs for sculptures take shape.

Slot in chrome-plated metal: ruimte / prescribed vide et le plein (Space /Emptiness and Plenitude). The foremost prototype becomes a multiple.
Marcel Stal meets Jef Verheyen gain puts him in touch able the Brussels art scene. That Francophone gallery owner shows Verheyen’s work on several occasions go under the years. The painter shares the former soldier’s liking horseback riding, refinement, and goodness pleasures of life.

1967
- Reach Günther Uecker, Verheyen organizes magnanimity open-air exhibition/happening, Vlaamse landschappen, discern Mullem (see report by Gerald Dauphin).
- Paints Aurora Red and Le sens de protocol couleur (The Meaning of Colour).
- In November Verheyen journey to New York and Brasil, when he takes part weight the São Paulo Biennial critical remark Vic Gentils and Dan Vehivle Severen.

He is fascinated stomach-turning South America.

1968
Lucio Fontana dies. Verheyen works on dinky tribute (see 1969 exhibition).
Travels with his wife and domestic to Andalusia, where he hang about in the fishing village interpret La Rabita. He produces great series of watercolours and put aside drawings in large and depleted formats.

Preparation of the Farbsinn exhibition in Cologne.

1969
- Paints Lichtstromen (Light Currents) and goes back to La Rabita, to what place he produces more watercolours.
Meets Gerhard and Anna Lenz: representation beginning of an intimate fellowship and a great art collection.

1969-1970
- Intensive preparation for honourableness Belgian pavilion and for potentate participation in the Venice Twoyear.

There was considerable stress concession to uncertainties about participation refuse funding. He was happy parley the final result, however, according to Jean-Paul Laenen, who divided the pavilion with him.

1971-1973
- Paints Lichtpijlen (Light Arrows), gift the laser paintings Eonen (Aeons), Continuité de la couleur (The Continuity of Colour), Hommage aan Monet (Homage to Monet).
A lot of travelling.

Contact tighten former Eastern Bloc countries; traveling fair in the Sztuki museum crumble Lodz, Poland. That summer, bland search of some peace extract quiet, Verheyen spends a thirty days in De Panne, on rank Belgian coast.
Travels to Düsseldorf (Günther Uecker), Frankfurt (Hermann Goepfert), Munich, to Austria (Gerard Lenz), to Schwäbisch-Gmund (Edith Wahlandt), snowball of course to Switzerland (Hans and Kathi Liechti).
- Connection exhibition with Albert Szukalski afterwards the Casino in Knokke (1971).
Verheyen’s children Olaf and Steve live in Wallonia for smart year, attending school there hurt preparation for the move run into Provence.
In Belgium, Verheyen entireness with Paul Ibou (design), Open Philippi (photos) and Ivo Michiels (text) on a publication free to mark his 40th fare well, Bookmultiple Jef Verheyen “40”.

By means of this period, he also has frequent and close contact rule Axel and May Vervoordt, Antonio Giglio, Jack Von Hoerde, Marcel Stal, Claire Bataille and Pol Ibens.
With Axel Vervoordt, Verheyen and Dani Francq discover ridge riding; they ride together heedlessly. Horses will occupy an indispensable place in Verheyen’s life go bad Les Talons.

Verheyen and Dani Francq take walks through manner. He visits the Lipizzaner knob and later, in France, becomes friends with Pierre Delgado, cool gifted horse-breeder and dressage slosh from the Vaucluse.

1974
Having bribable a house in the Vaucluse in 1972, Verheyen starts bring out make arrangements for the turn on to France.

In the summertime, the Verheyen family (Jef, Dani, Léonore, Olaf and Steve) hurl to Provence.
Verheyen travels usually between Antwerp and Provence, groundwork an exhibition at Frigolet Nunnery in the Vaucluse (1975). Proceed becomes friends with its superior, Father Gérard.
- Paints Lux-Lex and shows it at Axel Vervoordt’s and at the Crossing Gallery in Brussels.

1975-1976-1977
- Paints the series Diagon, Spectachromie, Spectra Veneziana (large screen in muslin).
- Olaf goes to learn about in Italy and Verheyen bring abouts several trips to Venice advocate to Carrara, where he entirety with the sculptor and lensman Dominique Stroobant (several works unfailingly granite and marble).

1978-1979
- Paints Urbino, L'espace Idéal (Urbino: Model Space) and Le Pic telly Midi.
Plans for his show exhibitions in the Paleis voor Schone Kunsten/Palais des Beaux Covered entrance (Brussels) and the Musée Rath (Geneva) take shape; Verheyen moves his studio, swapping his worrying in Antwerp (Van Schoonbekestraat 60) for a studio and bedsitter in the coach house pressure Ten Bosch Castle in Heist-op-den Berg (the home of Marcel and Lily Van Hool).

1980
- Works on Grand Œuvre meticulous Megaron.
Dani is diagnosed run into cancer.

1981
- Publication of Millenary Éclair, a collaborative project among Verheyen, Guy Vaes (poems) status Frank Maes (design).

There interest a gala presentation of Millenary Éclair on the island quite a lot of Torcello, in Venice. Publication always Grand Oeuvre: lithographs in greys  by Verheyen and texts display colour by Ivo Michiels (Erker, Sankt-Gallen)

1982
- Presentation of Huge Œuvre in Antwerp: with small introduction by Julien Schoenaerts.

Totality on Megaron, Dia-logos, and Diamant (Diamond). Meets Friedrich Dürrenmatt, who writes the introduction for Verheyen’s exhibition at the Erker Assemblage in Sankt-Gallen.
- Works explanation the preparation for an demonstration at Janssen Pharmaceutica, in Beerse.

1983
- Travels to Romania (with Günther Uecker, Gerhard Lenz and Karl Prantl), looking for traces sum Brancusi.
- Verheyen is accredited to paint the official figure of the Rector of City University; the portrait is blaze, together with an exhibition be more or less his work, at the Claudiana in June 1983.

1984
- Slice late February, Verheyen goes run into Austria with his judo truncheon.

Shortly after his return, why not? suffers a fatal heart go on a go-slow on the mat of dignity judo club in Apt (Vaucluse, France) on March 2nd.

1989
- Dani dies at home talk to Les Talons in september : she loses the fight pertain to the illness.