Lucebert - Litho, 'Oh hear oh hear' (small edition)

Lucebert (1924–1994) was involved as a poet with the Vijftigers (Fifties), who experimented with form and content in their poems after World War II. As a painter, he participated in the Cobra movement. Initially, Lucebert used the childlike visual language of the Cobra painters. In this print, however, the human figures have acquired a cartoonish appearance, emphasized by the heavy outlines and the grimness of the faces. Turn the text over in mirror imagery, and the enigmatic words appear: "O hoor, oh oor." According to the artist, we must interpret this meaning ourselves.
Lucebert's talent was discovered when he went to work for his father after school. After six months at art school, he decided to become homeless between 1938 and 1947. In 1947, a Franciscan monastery offered him a roof over his head in exchange for a huge mural. Because the nuns didn't appreciate his work, they had it completely painted over with white paint.
He belonged to the Dutch literary movement of the Fifties, which was strongly influenced by the European avant-garde movement COBRA. Lucebert's early work, in particular, shows this influence, and his art generally reflects a rather pessimistic view of life.