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FRANCISCUS JOHANNES GIJSBERTUS VAN DEN BERG:
JOHFRA
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E D I T O R I A L :
3 page article
Until now, Johfra has been known primarily as a painter of Esoteric subjects. His association with the seven Meta-Realist painters and his suite of twelve Zodiac Signs garnered him recognition as a master Hermetic painter - not only in his native Holland but also throughout the world. All of that has changed recently.
Since his death in 1998, many of his unknown works and a fair sample of his writings have been gathered together and made public for the first time. The first of these, his autobiography Symphonie Fantastique, appeared in 1998. Then, in October of 2001, a major Life Retrospective was held in the Westfries Museum in Hoorn, Holland (with an opening speech from Prof. Ernst Fuchs).
At the same time, a large monograph of his life’s work was launched: Johfra: Highest Lights and Deepest Shadows (Johfra: Hoogste lichten en diepste shaduwen) from Kosmos publishing. Not only were many new, surprising works included in this book, but now appeared the long-awaited excerpts from his Journals - spanning some sixty years of creative activity.
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