The painter and poet Lucebert is one of the greatest and most influential Dutch artists after the Second World War. As 'emperor' of the Fifties, he quickly built up an enormous reputation.

Lucebert made his paintings without preparatory study and not hindered by an aesthetic ideal. He spontaneously applies lines and spots and works purely through his intuition. The playfulness of the children's drawing is a source of inspiration for Lucebert, in keeping with the ideas of the original Cobra members. In 1961 Lucebert writes about his working method: “If you remember last year's Easter eggs when painting eggs, you no longer enjoy celebrating Easter. A good painting, a good poem, therefore arises in the no man's land, a border area between design and perception, an area where neither conventions of memory nor wishes-dictations of dreams of some utopia can play their limited roles.”

Lucebert's work is represented in all major Dutch museums.

The artworks below by Lucebert are available at