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A painter and lithographer, Guillaume Corneille, was born in Liège by Dutch parents in 1922. Corneille irregularly took drawing classes at the academy of fine Arts in Amsterdam during the early 1940’s but was self-taught in painting. His first personal exposition was held in Groningen at the age of 24.

Soon after World War II, Corneille and two other Dutchmen, Appel and Constant, founded the “Experimental group” of the Danish artist Jorn. Together with the Belgians Dotremont and Alechinsky, these two groups served as foundation of the “Cobra Group” which was a concentration of Copenhagen, Bruxells and Amsterdam (Co-Br-A). The critique and the existence of the Cobra group d