Bram Bogart — COBRA group — Avant-Garde Art
2 min readSep 25, 2019
Bram Bogart ( 1921–2012) was a Belgian expressionist painter most closely associated with the COBRA group. In the 1950s he began to concentrate on working with impasto. With thick layers of boldly applied and colourful paint, he developed an expressionist style which became more abstract with time.In 1961 he and his later to be wife Leni permanently relocated to Belgium and in 1969 he became a Belgian citizen. Here he began to experiment with a more three-dimensional medium, a mix of mortar, siccative, powdered chalk, varnish, and raw pigment, applied to large, heavy wooden backing structures.
