Jean Milo

Jean Milo was the pseudonym of Belgian author and artist Émile Van Gindertael. He was born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode en 1906 and died in 1993 in Rixensart. He was also a painter, poet, essayist and novelist.
Biography.
From 1926 to 1931, Jean Milo was the director of the Belgian Gallery "Le Centaure". As a painter, he was influential over Edgard Tytgat who wrote a biography about him. He helped found the "Art abstrait" group in 1952. Then, in 1980, he created a series of photo-collages which are now held by the Verbeke Foundation in Belgium.