Jan Cox

Style: Expressionism;

Place: The Hague

Born: 1919

Death: 1980

Biography:

Jan Cox (27 August 1919, The Hague – 7 October 1980, Antwerp) was Dutch-Belgian painter who spent the largest part of his creative life in the United States and Belgium. He was born in The Hague. In 1945, he was a founding member of the 'Jeune Peinture Belge' group. By the end of that decade he was briefly associated the CoBrA movement, publishing some of his art in the CoBrA magazine. In 1950, he moved to New York. After a brief stay in Rome, he returned to the United States in 1956, becoming head of the Painting Department at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. In 1974, he returned to Belgium, to live in Antwerp, and devote himself exclusively to painting. Jan Cox was psychically hyper-sensitive and suffered from recurrent depression throughout his life, eventually leading to his suicide, in Antwerp, in 1980. He is buried in the Schoonselhof Cemetery in Antwerp.