A post-Second World War modernist movement of artists and writers whose name was derived from the three native cities of the participants: Copenhagen, Belgium and Amsterdam. Members included Carl Henning Pedersen, Pierre Alechinsky and Karel Appel. The movement was reaction to the censorship and control of art expression during the Nazi era. The group exhibited [...]
A post-Second World War modernist movement of artists and writers whose name was derived from the three native cities of the participants: Copenhagen, Belgium and Amsterdam. Members included Carl Henning Pedersen, Pierre Alechinsky and Karel Appel. The movement was reaction to the censorship and control of art expression during the Nazi era. The group exhibited together from 1948 to 1951 and, showing influences of primitive art, tended to use violent brushwork and saturated colour.