Christian Dotremont, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Christian Dotremont

artist

Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1922

Place of Birth: Tervuren, Flemish Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 20-Aug-1979

Profession: writer, poet, painter

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Christian Dotremont, (12 December 1922 – 20 August 1979), was a Belgian painter and poet who was born in Tervuren, Belgium.
He was a founding member of the Revolutionary Surrealist Group (1946) and he also founded Cobra together with Danish artist Asger Jorn.
He later became well known for his painted poems (French: Peinture mots), which he called logograms. He died of tuberculosis in Tervuren.