[Exhibition Project] Jan Cox : Living One's Art

In the spring of 2008 the Royal Museum of Fine Arts painted a picture of Belgian artist Jan Cox (1919-1980). Cox played an important role in post-war art history. He had contacts with the members of the CoBrA-movement and became close friends with Hugo Claus and Pierre Alechinsky. In 1956 Jan Cox left for the USA where he was appointed Head of the Painting Department at the 'School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston'. In 1974 he returned to Belgium and found a new home in the circle of the 'Gallery De Zwarte Panter' (The Black Panther) in Antwerp. This publication is collaboration between the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp and the University of Ghent.