Jan Cox

Jan Cox was born 1910 BirthDen Haag, Netherlands.

Died Oct 7 1980 deathAntwerpen, Belgium.

Founding member of the group Jeune Peinture Belge in 1945, Jan Cox came to the United States in 1950 to fulfil his dreams. He exhibited in New York at Curt Valentine’s gallery and then Catherine Viviano’s. From 1956 onwards, after a stay in Rome he worked in Boston as Head of the Painting Department at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, where he realized his first important painting cycle based on the myth of Orpheus. In 1974 he returned to Antwerp to dedicate himself entirely to painting and in 1975 produced his monumental painting cycle based on Homer’s Iliad. This series of paintings was both his catharsis of violence and disappointment he had previously experienced in Modern society and the purging of his haunting memories of the Second World War. Jan Cox’s career continued with works on the subjects of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and The Martyrdom of Christ until his death in Antwerp on 7 October 1980.

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Paint made Flesh. In Paint Made Flesh, expressive figuration is considered as a reflection of artists' responses to such topics as identity, sexuality, and mortality

Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty. No artist's studio rivals Francis Bacon's in terms of sheer iconic pungency...

Gerhard Richter: A LIFE IN PAINTING. This biography of painter Gerhard Richter presents a portrait of an artist who has famously resisted associations between his personal life and his five-decades-long artistic oeuvre.

Lucian Freud. "I paint people," Freud has said, "not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be."

Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture. Published in conjunction with the opening of the new Saatchi Gallery in London, one of today’s most important institutions collecting and exhibiting contemporary art, this mammoth book is the most comprehensive volume on contemporary sculpture.

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