Michel Seuphor (French 1901–1999) was born Fernand Berckelaers in Antwerp, and adopted the pseudonym 'Seuphor,' an anagram for Orpheus, in 1917. During his long career as a writer, poet, art critic, and artist, Seuphor made important contributions to art history.

From 1922 onwards, Seuphor moved at the heart of the European avant-garde in Berlin, Rome, Amsterdam, and Paris, and spent time with pioneers of Cubism, Dada, Futurism, Constructivism, and Neo-Plasticism, including Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Piet Mondrian, Fernand Léger, Albert Gleizes, Hans Arp, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Herwarth Walden, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Gino Severini, and Joaquin Torrès-Garcia.

As a critic and writer, Seuphor left an important bibliography, including l'Art abstrait, ses origines, ses premiers ma (1948), Piet Mondrian, Life and Work (1956), and La peinture abstraite en Flandre (1963). As an artist, Seuphor is credited with the invention of the so-called 'dessin à lacunes,' drawings or collages in which abstract forms are created by the empty spaces between the lines.