Better known as Corneille, this nation painter and engraver, 1922, in Liege, Belgium. In the year of 1929 his family moved to Amsterdam. At 18 years Corneille began studying drawing and printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, the artists allconoce Karen Constant and Apell. In 1949 he made his first exhibicin in the city of Groningen, Holland. Along with others Appel and Constant, Corneille is part of the "Experimental Group", Ascom magazine's "Reflex". With the aforementioned, Corneille then moves to integrate the movement CoBrA (1948). The agrupacin dissolves Corneille in 1951 and moved to Paris. In 1949, makes his first trip to North Africa, which becomes influence the evolution of his work. At the end of the DCAD of 50, leaving his abstract landscapes and gradually begins to exhibit an imaginative style, with exotic animals and highly stylized forms.