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Cobra


Cobra
International group of artists founded in the Café Notre-Dame, Paris, on 8 November 1948 and active until 1951. The name was a conflation of the initial letters of the names of the capital cities of the countries of origin of the first members of the group: Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam. The initiators and spokesmen of the group were Asger Jorn, Christian Dotremont and Constant. All were searching, by way of experimental methods, for new paths ... (view more)

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Artists Associated with Cobra — 16 artists:

Pierre Alechinsky
Else Alfelt
Karl (1866) Appel
Jean-Michel Atlan
Ejler Bille
Eugene Brands
Constant
Christian Dotremont

Karl-Otto Gotz
Maximiliano Peter Grossmann
Asger Jorn
Iosif Samsonovič Konstantinovskij
Ernest Mancoba
Sonja Ferlov Mancoba
Carl-Henning Pedersen
Shinkichi Tajiri

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