Karl Heeremans
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Karl Heeremans, an artist-painter with very personal norms of colours and forms. Revolutions in contemporary art from Picasso to Kandinsky and others are over. This is modern and late XXth century art. His style can be described as a form of magic surrealism with cubist base and delicate colourscale.
Karl Heeremans was born in Liedekerke, Belgium on the first of June 1937. He had private drawing and painting lessons, followed by Greek-Latin High School (1945-1955).
In 1957 he started his studies in the history of the arts and musicology at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, completing his studies at the Academy of Düsseldorf, Germany with Ewald Mataré as professor(1959).
He then moved to Paris to the atelier of Anthoni Clavé, had friendships with Guiramand, Aïzpiri, Tamayo and met Picasso and Chagall (1960). In 1961 the Flemish expressionist Albert Saverijs accepted him in his atelier till his death in 1964.
From this time on, numerous awards and recognitions were presented to him. 1964 - price of Namur, Belgium 1962–1967 Italian Olivetti, Knokke and Ronse, Belgium and Cannes, France
1967 was the year he finished his medical studies. The International award of Deauville, France was hand over to him in 1968 by André Malraux and the Anto Carte Award (1976) by Emile Langui.
On his 40th anniversary as a painter, he was honored with a retrospective of 80 paintings at he Museum "Oud Hospitaal", Aalst, Belgium.
In the community hall of Liedekerke, Belgium, there is a permanent exhibition of his works. The chapel of Liedekerke also contains a large mural he created in 1993. Karl Heeremans is an artist-painter with very personal norms of colors and forms. Revolutions in contemporary art from Picasso to Kandinsky and others are over. This is modern and late 20th century art. His style can be described as a form of magic surrealism with a cubist base and a delicate color scale.
