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    The document discusses the life and career of the artist Johfra, including his studies during World War 2, the destruction of his early works by an Allied bomb in 1945, his meeting and marriage to his wife Diana in the 1940s and 1950s while living in The Hague, and his transition from classical to surrealist styles during this period.

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    VISIONARY REVUE PARIS - SPRING 2003

    THE HAGUE PERIOD


    1945 - 1962

    In 1945, Johfra acquired a studio on


    Willemstraat in the Hague. A different genre of
    works emerged at this time: classical nudes on
    mythological subjects - Andromeda or Queen of the
    Night. Anatomically perfect, an intense eroticism
    also emanates from these figures. Though Johfra
    kept a diary from his early youth, in 1945 he began
    writing these in code - a habit he would keep up
    intermittantly for the next five years.
    One year later, in 1946, he met the painter
    THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS Angèle Thérèse Blomjous, whom he knew initially
    IN THE HAGUE
    as Diavola. He considered her to be dangerous. In
    his Journal, he confided “when I saw her, I was
    seized by an inexplicable panic and an urge to
    In a Nazi propaganda pamphlet denouncing
    escape.”
    ‘Ontaarde Kunst’ (Improper Art), Johfra came
    across the Surrealist works of Dali, Ernst, Tanguy,
    and Magritte. Particularly Dali’s works struck a
    chord with him, and this modern master was added
    to his more classical pantheon. He began painting
    surrealist works with a classical technique in 1941.
    Since his studies (1934 - 1942) co-incided with
    the Second World War and the German occupation
    of Holland, the teenager suffered all this time
    through food and fuel rationing, hunger, and even
    Allied bombings. In 1945, an Allied bomb destroyed
    all the works he’d accomplished up to that time -
    some 400 paintings and 1000 drawings.
    Rather than feeling depressed and defeated, this
    tragic event inspired him to begin anew. He
    produced allegorical self-portaits and dream-like
    JOHFRA AND DIANA
    landscapes with slender organic forms, their torn
    draperies moved by invisible winds. He also
    produced Surrealist works in classical technique at Still, through a series of April Fool
    a time when figurative art was pronounced ‘dead’ circumstances, the two of them became intimate. He
    and Surrealism deemed ‘outmoded’ and ‘kitsch’ His called her, at various times, Angel, Anushka, and
    first exhibition in 1943, under the name Johfra, Diana. They soon became engaged and, in 1952,
    received negative critiques.
    they married. Keeping one of those nicknames and
    adopting his surname, Angèle Thérèse Blomjous
    eventually became Diana Vandenberg.

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