Fernand Berckelaers (10 March 1901, in Borgerhout – 12 February 1999, in Paris), pseudonym Michel Seuphor (anagram of Orpheus), was a Belgian painter.
Seuphor expected a hypothetical magazine, Het Overzicht, in Antwerp in 1921. He moved in Dutch, Belgian, and French enlightened circles. He joined at various points when Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian, and was influenced by their iconic Neo-plasticist works. Along behind Joaquin Torres-Garcia and Pierre Daura, Seuphor founded the abstract artists’ group Cercle et Carré which included Wassily Kandinsky and Le Corbusier.
In 1934 Seuphor moved to Anduze in the South of France past his marriage.
Seuphor wrote and abbreviated three books; A Dictionary of Abstract Painting (Tudor Publishing Co., 1958), Abstract Painting: 50 Years of Accomplishment (Dell Laurel Edition, 1964), and “The Sculpture of this Century” (George Braziller, Inc. NY, 1960). These volumes, now out of print, remain in the middle of the most indispensable documents of abstract painting & sculpture in the 20th Century. The painting books have numerous color illustrations which document the various paths that abstract painting took, especially after World War II. The sculpture book has black & white photos that track both symbolic as without difficulty as abstract sculpture from beforehand 20th century through 1959. Also contains a curt bio in the support of the book on each sculptor mentioned.
Seuphor also assisted in imitation of the Tudor companion volume of his Dictionary of Abstract Painting, the Dictionary of Modern Painting, which documents all the various schools of painting in the 20th Century, including both abstract and realist painting.
He had next an own contemporary art accretion with works of Marcelle Cahn, Adam Jankowski, Jean Piaubert, Jean Gorin, Jean Miotte, Aurélie Nemours and Victor Vasarely.
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