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18 years old Corneille studied drawing at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam.
It became an irregular progress lasting three years, which in the end
urged him to start painting.
He taught himself to paint and started painting pictures inspired by Matisse
and the cubism of Picasso. Other interesting starters and sources of inspiration
could have been Karel Appel and Constant, who both studied at the Rijksacademie
in the same period as Corneille. After the war, Corneille was mainly influenced
by Miro and Paul Klee.
In 1948 Corneille together with Karel Appel and Constant founded the Nederlandse
Experimentele Group with the magazine Reflex, and later that year he joined
Cobra.
The free bird, the mystic cat and the beatiful female soon became main
themes in the paintings of Corneille, and often they are found together
in the same sunny landscape, saturated by strong and bright colors.
During the fifties Corneille travels to Africa and to the american continent
and from the end of the fifthies his paintings becomes less bright and
more calm, paintet in earthen colors.
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