Victor Servranckx

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Victor Servranckx
Painter
MovementCubism, constructivism, and surrealism

Victor Servranckx (26 June 1897 – 11 December 1965) was a Belgian abstract painter and designer.

Servranckx was born in Diegem (Machelen) and studied from 1913 to 1917 at the Brussels Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. There, in 1916, he met René Magritte, with whom he wrote "Pure Art: A Defence of the Aesthetic" in 1922.[1] Servranckx's style was influenced by cubism, constructivism, and surrealism. He died in Vilvoorde.

Notes

  1. ^ Meuris, 1991, p. 216

References

  • Meuris, Jacques (1991). René Magritte. Cologne: Benedikt Taschen. .