John Cluysenaar

About John Cluysenaar

John Cluysenaar was a Belgian sculptor, painter and draughtsman. As a young artist, he was awarded the Prix de Rome for his numerous busts of prominent figures and artists of his time. His artistic explorations subsequently led him to painting, to which he devoted himself entirely from the late 1930s onwards. Initially a figurative painter, he turned towards lyrical abstraction around the beginning of the 1950s. It was during this evolution that he arrived at the theme that would become the essence of his oeuvre: the face. For more than forty years, John Cluysenaar reflected on the human face, continuously exploring its possibilities through painting. 

Born in Brussels in 1899, passed away in 1986.