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on art very strongly; they met him frequently and let their own art be influenced by his expressive art. Van Velde shuttled between Paris and Geneva, and in 1967 he moved to the latter. When the relation with
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In 1962, 1964 and 1968 van Velde had exhibitions in the United States organized by the
Knoedler gallery. In 1968 the art critic can appreciate him as 'an important abstract expressionist painter with an independent vision'. In 1962 he visited Willem de Kooning—also of Dutch origins—but the contact
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between the two artists is not very satisfying for either side. After 1970, van Velde travelled to visit his own expositions in Poland, Iceland, Italy and Norway, Brussels, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Rome. He did not make much new work during this period. In 1964, he was named "chevalier" of the
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in The Hague. He was encouraged in his art by the co-owner Eduard H. Kramers and his son
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On 6 October 1928 van Velde married the German painter Lilly (Sophie
Caroline) Klöker (1896–1936), whom he had been seeing since perhaps his stay at Worpswede. With the Great Depression, their material conditions deteriorated and they moved to Spain, and in September 1932 they were living in
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which are seen as the last "savage" appearance of colour in his work. Aimé Maeght took him back in his gallery, almost 20 years after having dropped him. In 1975, he was received by universities in
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were born in 1898 and 1903). After going bankrupt, the father abandoned the family; the mother and children moved repeatedly over the next years, from Leyden to Lisse, and finally to
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quartier, 19th arrondissement). His career progressed slowly, and in
February 1927 he exhibited his works in Bremen. This was followed by the Jury-Freie Kunstschau of
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little house. In 1957 Van Velde made his first lithography, and with the help of Jaques Putman he made long series of lithographies in the following years.
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artists. This three-month exposure to contemporary art revolutionized van Velde's work. He left
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exempted from service in the First World War, and he was able to continue his work as a painter and decorator, and to enroll in the
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