Surrealism in Belgium

Literature and painting

Groups of Brussels

Rachel Bases (1912-1983), painter
Yves Bossut (1941), painter
Gilles Brenta (1943), painter
Paul Colinet (1898-1957), writer
Christian Dotremont (1922-1979), writer and creator of logogrammes
Paul Delvaux (1897-1994), painter
Camille Goemans (1900-1960), writer
Jane Graverol (1905-1984), painter
Tom Gutt (1941-2002), writer, creator of objects and editor
Irene Hamoir (1906-1994), writer
Claudine Jamagne, painter and illustrator
Marcel Lecomte (1900-1966), writer
Rene Magritte (1898-1967), painter
Marcel Mariën (1920-1993), writer and creator of joinings and objects
E.L.T. Mesens (1903-1971), writer and creators of joinings
Paul Nougé (1895-1967), writer
Louis Scutenaire (1905-1987), writer
max Served (1904-1990))
Armand Simon (1906-1981), painter
Andre Souris (1899-1970), musician
Raoul Ubac (1910-1985), painter
Roger Van de Wouwer (1933), painter
Robert Willems (1926), painter

Reviews and editions

1924 - Correspondence (Goemans, Magritte, Nougé, Lecomte), 26 leaflets, November 1924 - September 1925, Brussels; collection Facsimiled, Didier Devillez editor, Brussels, 1993.
1925 - Esophagus , (Magritte, Mesens), a number, March 1925, Brussels; collection Facsimiled, Didier Devillez editor, Brussels, 1993.
1926 - Marie (Goemans, Mesens, Nougé), four numbers, June 1926 - 1927, Brussels; collection Facsimiled, Didier Devillez editor, Brussels, 1993.
1928 - Distances (Goemans, Lecomte, Magritte, Mesens, Nougé), three numbers, February-April 1928, Paris; collection Facsimiled, Didier Devillez editor, Brussels, 1994.
1929 - the clean Direction (Goemans, Magritte), five leaflets, February-March 1929, Paris; collection Facsimiled, Didier Devillez editor, Brussels, 1995.
1933 - Editions Nicolas Flamel (Mesens)
1934 - Documents 34 (Mesens), 1934-1935, Brussels; collection Facsimiled, Didier Devillez editor, Brussels.
1940 - the collective Invention (Magritte, Ubac), two numbers, February-April 1940, Brussels; collection Facsimiled, Didier Devillez editor, Brussels, 1995.
1941 - the magnetized Needle (Mariën), Antwerp.
1945 - Answer (Goemans), a number, Brussels.
1945 - the Earth is not a vale of tears (Mariën), a book, Brussels; collection Facsimiled, Didier Devillez editor, Brussels, 1993.
1945 - the Blue sky (Mariën, Colinet, Dotremont), nine numbers, February-April 1945, Brussels.
1945 - public Safety (Dotremont), Brussels.
1946 - the inaccurate Mirror (Mariën, Magritte), 1946 - 1947, Brussels.
1946 - the Two sisters (Dotremont), three numbers, 1946-1947, Brussels.
1946 - Suractuel (Dotremont), a number, Brussels.
1947 - the Baby Jesus (Christmas Arnaud and Christian Dotremont), eleven numbers between 1951 and 1963, Paris.
1948 - international Bulletin of revolutionary surrealism (Dotremont), a number, January 1948, Brussels.
1950 - the Sheet charged (Magritte and Mariën), a number, March 1950, Brussels.
1952 - the Chart according to nature (Magritte), ten numbers and two special issues, 1952-1956, Brussels.
1954 - naked Lips (Mariën), twelve numbers, 1954 - 1958 (first series); twelve numbers, 1969 - 1975 (second series), Brussels.
1961 - Rhetoric (Magritte and André Bosmans), 1961 - 1966, thirteen numbers, Flax stripper-lez-Liege.
1963 - Layers (Dotremont), 1963 - 1966, seven numbers, Brussels.
1968 - the accomplished Fact (Mariën), 135 numbers, 1968 - 1975, Brussels.
1968 - a paper Footbridge (Tom Gutt), Brussels.
1972 - the Vocative (Tom Gutt), November 1972, numbers in December 1987, Brussels.

The group of the Hainaut

pol. Bury (1922-2005), painter and sculptor
Achilles Chavée (1906-1969), writer
Fernand Dumont, (1906-1945), writer
Marcel Havrenne (1912-1957), writer
Marcel Lefrancq (1916-1974), photographer
Andre Lorent (1902)
Constant Malva (1903-1969)
Armand Simon (1906-1981)
Louis Van de Spiegele (1912-1971)
" Rupture", group (1934-1938)
" High Nuit" , group, Mons, 1947 -

Reviews and editions

1935 - bad weather (Chavée), a number, Louvière; collection Facsimiled, Didier Devillez editor, Brussels, 1993.
1957 - Daily-Bull (Andre Balthazar and pol. Bury), 14 numbers, 1957-1983, Louvière

Cinema

Some surrealist films made date in the History of the Belgian Cinéma.

For example, in 1929, the count Henri d' Ursel, born with Brussels, turns to Paris, a little to the manner of Louis Feuillade, the Pearl , according to the scenario of the poet Georges Hugnet, a history with multiple bounces not deprived of erotism.

A little later, Ernst Moerman, poet and friend of Éluard, also fascinated by serial films of Feuillade, proposes a vision oneiric and subversive of the frightening hero of Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain, with Mister Fantômas , a dumb medium-length film whose first with the Palais of the Art schools of Brussels on October 12th 1937 takes place, whereas one also projects there a Andalusian dog .

Marcel Mariën produced and carries out in 1959 the film the Imitation of the cinema , in which Tom Gutt takes part, joke érotico-freudienne against the Church, which causes the scandal and the intervention of the parquet floor in Belgium and will be projected clandestinely in France after being prohibited by the censure.

Its follower Jan Bucquoy will make in 1996 the film Camping Cosmos (with inter alia Jacques Calonne) which gives an imaginary vision of the Belgians during their holidays.

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