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In 1960 Jozef Peeters dies. In the early 1920s,

this Antwerp painter had been a pioneer of

abstract art. When the Antwerp neo-avant-garde

group G58 is founded, the young generation

recognise Peeters’ pioneering role by appointing

him honorary chairman.

With the death of Peeters, Jef Verheyen loses

both a friend and role model. ‘You were a sort of

Tijl Uilenspiegel. I needed you, so that I could

learn something from your wisdom and age, your

magazines, the exhibitions with Klee, Kandinsky

and Moholy-Nagy, whose work you knew so well.’