Christian Dotremont, (; 12 December 1922 – 20 August 1979), was a Belgian painter and poet who was born in Tervuren, Belgium. He was a founding member of the Revolutionary Surrealist Group (1946) and he also founded COBRA together with Danish artist Asger Jorn. In this capacity he was responsible for bringing Henri Lefebvre's Critique de la vie quotidienne (1946) to the group's attention. He later became well known for his painted poems (French: Peinture mots), which he called logograms. He died of tuberculosis in Buizingen. Gallery References Bibliography Labisse (1946) Les jambages au cou (1949) Cobra 1948 - 1951 - with an introduction by Christian Dotremont, (1980, Jean-Michel Place) (1986) External links 5 Logograms in translation 1922 births 1979 deaths People from Tervuren Belgian painters Abstract painters Belgian poets in French 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in Belgium 20th-century Belgian poets Belgian male poets 20th-century Belgian male writers