IJhorst Side Table

Constant Nieuwenhuis

From Cobra to New Babylon Constant Nieuwenhuys (Amsterdam 1920 – Utrecht 2005) was one of the most influential Dutch artists of the twentieth century. He co-founded Cobra (1948–1951), the international collective of artists that brought a radical shift to painting in the post-war years. In the early 1950s, he began developing spatial constructions, laying the groundwork for h…