Jan Verdoodt (1908–1980) came from Sint-Pieters-Jette in Belgium. He attended the Academie van Sint-Jans-Molenbeek from 1926, under Frans Persoons, where he was attracted equally by Realism (in the play a role of Eugène Laermans) and Surrealism (in Magritte’s paintings). He developed his own style by combining these two schools, creating ‘a nice of magic realism in which get-up-and-go and reality, woman and nature, were intimately bound together’.
He began take action as an apprentice in a lithography studio and became a photo-engraver. He produced portraits, self-portraits, still simulation paintings and landscapes, and was a founding fanatic of the Cercle Jecta in 1938 (Magritte was after that a member).
His produce a result has been acquired by the Belgian let pass and by the province of Brabant, and he has unchangeable his name to a road in Jette and to a passage in the Parc Baudouin.
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