Grusenmeyer Paul
Paul Grusenmeyer was a Belgian artist who was born in 1930 in Deinze and who died in 2006 in Deurle. He was a painter and draftsman. Father of Marie-Paule, brother of Stefaan Grusenmeyer. Education at the Academy in Deinze (1944-1949), architecture lessons at Sint-Lucas in Ghent (1949-1953). In 1954 he worked as a painter in Montmartre/Paris. Then stayed in Congo from 1955 to 1960. Subsequently, professional pursuits in the fashion world prevented painting and drawing, but from 1985 he was able to devote his heart and soul to his art again. Created together with two artist friends, Piet Bekaert and Michel Flamme, some large paintings where one inspired and/or challenged the other. Developed a subtle plastic oeuvre in which he searched for the sensitive balance between size, structure and matter. From the press: 'The works of P.G. vibrate in their environment. There are the material works that revive the signs from the distant past in a soft silence of warm color or subtle greys, there are the score compositions that create the sounds from the brush and release their paper fragility wafer-thin on a cosmic black. There are works that, in a balance of light, slowly push your time and silently leave their thumbs-press of silence in the sign of sports. The emotion of simple mastery and perfect composition.' After his death, two hundred graceful, sometimes sultry erotic nude drawings were discovered in his studio, which are somewhat comparable in design to the oeuvre of Egon Schiele. Rarely exhibited, but still exhibited in 2002 in the Museum van Deinze en Leiestreek; posthumous exhibition in the gallery Ludwig Trossaert in Antwerp in 2007. Was working in Deurle. (piron)