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Marcel Marc (M. van Hemelrijck) Eemans (1907 - 1998) was a Belgian surrealist artist.

As a pupil at the Brussels Academy, Eemans met the Belgian abstract painter Victor Servranckx.

Around 1926 Eemans moved away from abstraction after befriending members of the ‘Société du Mystère’, the Belgian surrealist group.

In 1928 his friend E. L. T. Mesens organised his first show at the l’Epoque gallery.

In 1939 he was invited along with Magritte to exhibit at the Indépendants’ exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

Active as a poet and writer Eemans contributed to the surrealist review ‘Distances’, which his friend Camille Goemans

Eemans decided to officially leave the Belgian surrealist group not because of ideological reasons but in order to carry on his surrealist experience in solitary. His friendships with E.L.T. Mesens, Magritte and Camille Goemans lasted a lifetime.

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References

De laatste surrealist. Marc. Eemans Antwerpen, 1984 Uitgeverij: Kunst & Kapitaal ISBN: 90-70832-05-4 1984

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