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Roger Raveel

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painter (1921-2013)

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Born
1921
Works
7

Top works

  • Roger Raveel het overzicht
  • Zien, denken, schilderen
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Type
Person
Country
GB
Active from
1936-03-22
Active to
2023-09-13

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Quotes

  • Hugo, [Claus] Now you should see my recent works. A drawing in ink, three pencil drawings and two sketches in oil-paint: a still-life and a landscape in the strongest colors you can imagine. I still have to work on the landscape, but I really think it will be the best of my paintings till now.. ..but the happiest thing is, I have acquired much more freedom.
  • Every day I make more progress in technique: understanding of color, the material and the line. [I] can even give better theoretical explanations. And moreover, gradually I live more and more connected with the matter of the profession. What I mean is that my thinking and feeling are more directly, more fundamentally connected with painting itself. No longer so much thinking and feeling get lost.
  • [I have] all respect for that neoclassicism [of Piet Mondrian ], but it would sacrifices me too much to architecture. That kind of art does indeed fit perfectly in very modern rooms of modern buildings in equally modern cities, but never again a handcart can drive in there and never again someone can speak or think of a white dog cart in the fog. I am longing for a painting that can hang in a modern environment and still have its 'personal' life.
  • The city offers certainly advantages, I agree. But I think that they do not outweigh the direct, unadulterated inspiration of the natural life that I find here [in the country, in Machelen].
  • The terrible beautiful Life.
  • I don't want to be a preacher who tries to improve the world according to his own opinion. For that I put too much in perspective in my thinking and perhaps I am more independent. I do not start from a reflex on tradition and on social and political structures but rather from a continual and fresh scanning for the essence of things.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Roger
Gender
male
Citizenship
Belgium
Place of birth
Machelen
Place of death
Deinze
Occupation
visual artist
Languages spoken
Dutch
Native language
Dutch
Participant in
4. documenta
Field of work
painting
Work location
Machelen
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Roger Raveel
Commons category
Roger Raveel
date of birth
1921-07-17
date of death
2013-01-30
cause of death
pneumonia
name in native language
Roger Raveel
floruit
2010-01-01
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