- Rachel Baes
Rachel Baes (
1 August 1912 –May 1983) was a Belgiansurrealist painter.Daughter of landscape painter and portraitist Émile Baes, Rachel Baes was born in
Brussels . She had no formal artistic training, but began her career as an artist in 1929 when she exhibited works inParis .Baes was a member of the surrealist group around
René Magritte and had contacts withAndré Breton ,Jean Cocteau ,Max Ernst ,Georges Bataille ,Irène Hamoir , andPaul Eluard .Between 1936 and 1940, Baes had an affair with
Joris Van Severen , leader of the extreme rightistVerdinaso party inBelgium . Van Severen was shot erroneously by French troops in 1940. Baes published an exculpatory biography of Van Severen—"Joris Van Severen, une âme"—in 1965, but without effect.From 1961 she retired from public life and lived alone in
Bruges . She was buried atAbbeville , alongside Van Severen.References
* Rachel Baes, Empreintes, l'Imprimerie des Sciences, Bruxelles, 1951, 80 pages
* R. Baes, Joris Van Severen, Une Âme, Editions Oranje, Zulte, 1965, 90 pages
* Patrick Spriet, Een Tragische Minnares (Rachel Baes, Joris Van Severen, Paul Léautaud en de surrealisten, Vanhalewijck, 2002, 328 pages
* M. Janssens, P. Spriet, S. van Loo, J. Chénieux-Gendron en X. Canonne, Gekooid verlangen (Jane Graverol, Rachel Baes en het surrealisme ...), Gynaika/KMSKA, Antwerpen, 2002, 203 pages
* Dupont, Pierre-Paul, "BAES Rachel (1912–1983)", in E. Gubin, C. Jacques, V. Piette & J. Puissant (eds), "Dictionnaire des femmes belges: XIXe et XXe siècles." Bruxelles: Éditions Racine, 2006. ISBN 2-87386-434-6
* Xavier Canonne, Het Surrealisme in België, 1924-2000 (Rachel Baes: 268-271), Mercatorfonds, Brussel, 2006, 350 pagesExternal links
* [http://users.telenet.be/rachelbaes/rb.html Rachel Baes: The spiritual exercises]
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