Documentation

<p>f.l.t.r.: Tony Sluiter and Aldo van Eyck carrying Constant's painting "L'animal sorcier".</p>

<p>Installation of room 6 of the <em>Internationale Tentoonstelling van Experimentele Kunst </em>by Aldo van Eyk at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 1949. Aldo van Eyk was designer of the exhibition. Paintings on the wall by Karel Appel.</p>

<p>Cobra exhibition Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, November&nbsp;1949: Room 8. On the upper left À nous la liberté/<em>Après nous la liberté</em>, 1949 on the bottom left <em>L'animal sorcier,&nbsp;</em>1949. On the right wall three works by Zoltan Kemeny.</p>

<p>Cobra meeting in the studio of Jean-Michel Atlan in Paris, 1949<br>F.l.t.r. Jacques Doucet, Constant, Christian Dotremont, Denise Atlan, Jean-Michel Atlan, Corneille and Karel Appel.<br><br>Subscript by Constant reads: <em>Réunion à l'atelier de J. Atlan, Paris, 1949.</em></p><p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Cobra meeting in the studio of Jean-Michel Atlan in Paris, 1949<br>F.l.t.r. Jacques Doucet, Constant, Christian Dotremont, Denise Atlan, Jean-Michel Atlan, Corneille and Karel Appel.<br><br>Subscript by Constant reads: <em>Réunion à l'atelier de J. Atlan, Paris, 1949.</em></p><p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>On the back: <em>Kopenhagen 1949 (at the home of Asger Jorn)</em>.<br><em>Three well shaped todlers.</em> <br>F.l.t.r: Martha, Matie van Domselaer with Olga on her lap and Constant with Victor on his lap.<br><br></p>

<p>Constant and his second wife Nellie Riemens, 1950. Stamp designed by Jan Bons, 1988</p><h2><strong>NB: Not available in high res!</strong></h2>

<p>Constant at his home, Henri Polaklaan 25 Amsterdam.</p><p>ca 1949&nbsp;<br><strong style="font-size: 14px;"><span><br>NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image.</span></strong></p>

<p>Constant Nieuwenhuys at the Cobra exhibition from 03 to 28 November 1949 in&nbsp;room 5 of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam . F.l.t.r. Femme-oiseau (1949), Femme qui a blessé un oiseau avec une feuille morte (1949), Le baiser (1949), Femme qui a quitté sa maison pour la lune (1949) (destroyed by Constant himself).&nbsp;<br />

<p>Constant playing guitar at the Henri Polaklaan 25, Amsterdam, 1949</p>

<p>F.l.t.r: Jørgen Nash, Constant Nieuwenhuys and Victor.<br />
Constant working on a mural of painted cement in the garden of Jørgen Nash in Tibirkelunde, Sjaelland, Denmark, in May 1949. Jørgen Nash is the brother of Asger Jorn.</p>

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<p>Constant, Appel and Corneille are riding horse in Tegelen, 1949.<br>They were making their ceramics in Tegelen.</p><h2><strong>NB: Not available in high res!</strong></h2>

<p>F.l.t.r: Constant, Else Alfelt (Høst), Nelly Riemens and Karel Appel at Constant's home at the Henri Polaklaan 25, Amsterdam, November 1949.</p>

<p><em>Cultuur en contra-cultuur</em> <em>(Culture and counter-culture) </em>in <em>Reflex: orgaan van de experi­mentele groep in Holland, </em>nº 2, 1949. Republished with title <em>Culture et contre-culture</em> in <em>Documents relatifs à la fondation de l’Internationale Situationniste 1948-1957</em>, Paris, Allia, 1985, pp. 41-43 and pp. 59-61.</p>

<p><em>C’est notre désir qui fait la révolution</em>, published in <em>Cobra, organe du front international des artistes expérimentaux d’avant-garde</em> [organ of the International Front of Avant-garde Experimental Artists], 4 November 1949, 3-4.</p><p>The typed manuscript in Dutch is in the Constant archive at the <a title="RKD" href="https://rkd.nl/nl/&quot; target="_blank">Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD)</a>.<br><br>English translation: It

<p>Circa 1949</p>

<p><em>De conferentie van Parijs (The conference of Paris)</em> in <em>Reflex: orgaan van de experimentele groep in Holland, </em>nº 2, 1949. Republished in <em>Documents relatifs à la fondation de l’Internationale Situation­niste 1948-1957</em>, Paris, Allia, 1985, pp. 36.</p>

<p><em>De experimentele groep (The experimental group)</em> in <em>Kroniek van kunst en cultuur, </em>nº 11, 1949. Republished with title <em>Le groupe expérimental</em> in <em>Documents relatifs à la fondation de l’Internationale Situationniste 1948-1957</em>, Paris, Allia, 1985, pp.13-17.</p>

<p><span>Text by Constant, placed in ‘Kroniek van kunst en Kultur’, Maandblad 10, jaargang n. 11, november 1949.&nbsp;</span></p>