Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo ( born 1922 ) , better known under his pseudonym Corneille , is a Dutch artist . Corneille , Cornelis van Beverloo was born in 1922 in Liege in Belgium . Corneille studied art at the Academy of Art in Amsterdam , in the Netherlands . He was one of the founders of the REFLEX movement in 1948 and in 1949 he was also one of the founders of the COBRA group in Denmark , which has had great influence on Scandinavian art . He was active within the group from the beginning , not only painting but also publishing poetry in the Cobra magazine . The poetic Corneille was strongly influenced by Miro and Klee . After the group dissolved in 1951 he moved to Paris and began collecting African art . These primitive artifacts became evident in his works , which began to take on a more imaginative style , like landscapes seen from a birds eye view , exotic birds and stylised forms . Today Corneille lives and works in Paris , he makes visits to Israel where he works with the Jaffa Atalier . on 24 in September 2003 there was an opening of his exhibition of prints , in the Ramat-Gan Museum of Art , Israel . He was a cofounder of the Experimentele Groep Holland and a member of CoBrA .  This artist -related article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it . Categories : Artist stubs | 1922 births | Living people In other languages : Deutsch | Nederlands | Svenska 