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Born in 1913 in Amsterdam. From 1931 until 1934, Eugene Brands studied
to become an advertising-designer, and after studying he teached himself
to paint.
He attended the exhibition Jonge Schilders in 1946 at Stedelijk museum
in Amsterdam, and attracted attention because of his experimenting ink
collages and garbage sculptures filling a wholde exhibition room.
Especially Karel Appel and Corneille was enthusiastic about his experimental
ways of expression and in 1948 they convinced him to join the newly established
Nederlandse Experimentele Group. During this time Brands wrote articles
for the two published issues of the magazine Reflex connected to the group,
and later he joined Cobra together with the rest of the group.
The connection to Cobra was very short. Soon after the famous scandalous
exhibition at Stedelijk Museum, where he participated with paintings and
did the jungle music that sounded in every room, he left Cobra because
he felt a to big gap between the Cobra way and his own way of expressions.
However he continued long after Cobra to paint poetic pictures in Cobra
style inspired by the folkart of the world and childrens drawings, and
he rather fell out of the group because he as an individual did not felt
at home in the very collective group of Cobra.
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