Iconomaques is the name of a group of Luxembourg

Luxembourg

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 artists who moved away from figurative art

Figurative art

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 in order to promote abstract art

Abstract art

Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...

. Created in 1954, the founding members were Will Dahlem, Henri Dillenbourg, François Gillen, Emile Kirscht

Emile Kirscht

Emile Kirscht was a Luxembourg painter who worked with acrylics and gouache on paper. In 1954, he was a co-founder of the Iconomaques group of abstract artists in Luxembourg.-Early life:...

, Joseph Probst

Joseph Probst

Joseph Probst was a Luxembourg painter who, in 1954, was one of the founder members of the Iconomaques group of abstract painters who opposed figurative art.-Early life and education:...

, Wenzel Profant, Michel Stoffel

Michel Stoffel

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 and Lucien Wercollier

Lucien Wercollier

Lucien Wercollier was a sculptor from Luxembourg.While he worked primarily in bronze and marble, some of his work is sculpted in wood, alabaster, stone and onyx. His public monuments in bronze and marble are of particular importance...

. Iconomaque held its first exhibition on 19 June 1954 at the National Museum in Luxembourg City

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 and at the townhall in Esch-sur-Alzette

Esch-sur-Alzette

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. After a second exhibition in 1959, the group did not arrange any further activities.

The commentator Lucien Kayser saw the 1954 Iconomaques exhibition as the definitive sign that modern art had arrived in Luxembourg.