Georges Vantongerloo (Belgian, –1965)

Timeline

1886
Born 24 November in Antwerp
1905–1909
Studied at Fine Art Academies in Antwerp and Brussels
1914
Conscripted as a soldier in World War I (he was wounded in a gas attack and was discharged from the army)
1916
Met Van Doesburg
1917
Married Adriana Woutrina (Tine) Kalis
1914–1919
Escaped to Holland, lived in Waasennar and Den Haag
1917–1922
Co-signatory of the first manifesto of De Stijl art group and contributor to the journal ‘De Stijl’
1924
Publication of L’Art et son Avenir, Edition De Sikkel in Antwerp
1919–1927
Lived in Menton, France
1927
Moved to Paris. Correspondence with the Belgian Prime Minister, Mr Jaspar, concerning project for a bridge at I’Escaut, Antwerp.
1931
Founder member of Abstraction-Création, Paris
1965
Died in Paris 5 October

Exhibitions

2006
Georges Vantongerloo, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
2005
La Belgique Visionnaire, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
2002
Georges Vantongerloo, Centraal Museum Utrecht
2001
Georges Vantongerloo, Haus Bill, Zumikon/Kanton Zurich
2001
Naum Gabo, GeorgesVantongerloo, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart - Works On Paper, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1996
Een Kunstolympiade in Amsterdam - Reconstructie van tenntoonstellung D.O.O.D 1936, Gemeentearchief, Amsterdam
1996
Max Bill - Georges Vantongerloo - A Working Friendship, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1996
Georges Vantongerloo, Galerie Ronny van de Velde, Antwerp
1995–1996
Les Figures de la Liberté / 1945, Musée Rath, Geneva
1995
1945 - The End of the War, Annely Juda Fine Art, London; Galerie Denise René, Paris; Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf
1994
Line and Movement, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1989
L’Europa dei Razionalisti, Palazzo Volpi, Como
1988
Rot, Gelb, Blau, Kunstmuseum, Sankt Gallen; Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
1986–1987
Georges Vantongerloo zum 100. Geburtstag, Galerie Ernst Scheidegger, Zurich
1986
GeorgesVantongerloo, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporaneo, Milan; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Josef Albers Museum, Quadrat, Bottrop
1981
Georges Vantongerloo 1886-1965, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels and Kunsthaus Zürich
1980
Georges Vantongerloo- A Traveling Retrospective Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1979
Line and Movement, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1978
The Planar Dimension, Europe 1912-32, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1978
The Non-Objective World 1914-39, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1977–1978
Constructive Concepts, McCrory Corporation Collection, New York, touring exhibition: Düsseldorf, Zurich, Paris, Louisiana, Stockholm, Geneva, Tel Aviv
1977
Malevich-Mondrian und ihre Kreise, Wilhelm Hack Collection, Kunstverein Hannover
1977
Georges Vantongerloo 1886-1965, Galerie Lopes, Zurich
1977
Tendenzen der Zwanziger Jahre, Neue Nationalgalerie, Akademie der Künste, Große Orangerie am Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin
1977
Abstraction-Création 1931-36, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster; Musée de l’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1976
Malevich-Mondrian und ihre Kreise, Wilhelm Hack Collection, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
1974
Vordemberge-Gildewart Remembered, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1974
De Stijl, Cercle et Carré 1917-30, Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne
1973
Galerie Liatowitsch, Basle
1973
The Non-Objective World 1914-55, Annely Juda Fine Art, London; University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin
1971–1972
Georges Vantongerloo, Galerie Denise René/Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf
1971
The Non-Objective World 1924-39,Galerie Jean Chauvelin, Paris; Annely Juda Fine Art, London; Galleria Milano, Milan
1962
Georges Vantongerloo, Marlborough Fine Art, London
1961
Il Exposition Internationale de Sculpture, Musée Rodin, Paris
1961
Georges Vantongerloo zum 75. Geburstag, Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Zurich
1960
Konkrete Kunst- 50 Jahre Entwicklung, Helmhaus, Zurich
1953
Georges Vantongerloo, Galleria Origine, Rome
1953
Georges Vantongerloo, Rose Fried Gallery, New York
1951
Max Bill, Julius Bissier, Georges Vantongerloo, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany
1950
Europäische Kunst des 13. – 20. Jahrhunderts aus Züricher Sammlungen, Kunsthaus Zürich
1950
Painters of De Stijl, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
1949
Exhibited together with Max Bill and Antoine Pevsner in the Kunsthaus Zürich where Vantongerloo was represented with 60 works
1949
L’Art Abstrait, Galerie Maeght, Paris
1947
Arte Astratta e Concreta, Palazzo Exreale, Milan
1946
1er Salon des Réalités Nouvelles: Art Abstrait, Concret, Constructivisme, Non-Figuratif, Paris
1943
Georges Vantongerloo, 1909-1939, 30 Années de Recherches, Galerie de Berri, Paris
1939
Art Non-Objectif, Galerie Charpentier, Paris
1938
Abstract Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1937
Konstruktivisten, Kunsthalle Basel
1936
Cubism and Abstract Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1936
Association artistique les Surindépendents indépendance discipline, neuvième exposition, Paris
1935
L’Art Mural, Paris
1934
Galerie Abstraction-Création, Paris
1930
Cercle et Carré, Galerie 23, Paris
1930
Aeroclub de France, Pavillon Marsan, Paris
1930
International Exhibition, Stockholm
1929
Graphisches Kabinett, Munich
1929
Abstrakte and Surrealistische Malerei und Plastik, Kunsthaus Zürich
1922
Exposition Internationale de I’Art d’Aujourd’hui, Geneva
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