Jozef Peeters is a Belgian painter, engraver and graphic artist.

In 1913, Jozef Peeters attended for a short time the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts, but was mainly interested by his own experiments. In 1914 he started painting luminist

Luminism (Impressionism)

Luminism is a late-impressionist or neo-impressionist style in painting which devotes great attention to light effects.The term has been used for the style of the Belgian painters such as Emile Claus and Théo van Rysselberghe and their followers , as well as for...

 landscape

Landscape

Landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including the physical elements of landforms such as mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements including different forms of...

s and portrait

Portrait

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s. From 1915 to 1917 he turned to symbolistic

Symbolism (arts)

Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire...

 works inspired by theosophy

Theosophy

Theosophy, in its modern presentation, is a spiritual philosophy developed since the late 19th century. Its major themes were originally described mainly by Helena Blavatsky , co-founder of the Theosophical Society...

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In 1918 he meets Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti was an Italian poet and editor, the founder of the Futurist movement, and a fascist ideologue.-Childhood and adolescence:...

, who convinced him to join the futurist movement

Futurism

Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century.Futurism or futurist may refer to:* Afrofuturism, an African-American and African diaspora subculture* Cubo-Futurism* Ego-Futurism...

. With Edmond Van Dooren and Jan Cockx

Jan Cockx

Jan Cockx was a Belgian painter perhaps best known for landscapes, still life and harbor scenes.Working with exuberant colors and mostly large-scale canvases, Cockx often painted simple subjects in vibrant ways. He defined space with color and often flattened the perspective...

, Jozef Peeters established the “Modern Art” group in September 1918. The group was able to establish international contacts with the "Der Sturm

Der Sturm

Der Sturm was a magazine covering the expressionism movement founded in Berlin in 1910 by Herwarth Walden. It ran weekly until monthly in 1914, and became a quarterly in 1924 until it ceased publication in 1932....

" Gallery in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. It also organized three art congresses with exhibitions.

In 1920, Jozef Peeters presents his first abstract painting. He is considered to be, next to Karel Maes , one of the first Belgian abstract painters. The next year he published his first album with six linocut

Linocut

Linocut is a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum is used for the relief surface. A design is cut into the linoleum surface with a sharp knife, V-shaped chisel or gouge, with the raised areas representing a reversal of the parts to show printed...

s. Jozef Peeters also participated in several international art exhibitions among which the International exhibition in Geneva

Geneva

Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...

 (1921) and the First exhibition of modern art in Bucharest

Bucharest

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 (1924).

En 1924, he worked on the interior decoration and designed the furniture

Furniture

Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store things...

 for his new house.

Jozef Peeters was also committed to art publications. In 1921, in cooperation with Geert Pijnenburg

Geert Pijnenburg

Geert Pijnenburg , pseudonym Geert Grub was a Belgian poet, writer and Flemish activist.-Bibliography:* Sexologie en levensleer, 1936, Monography...

 and Michel Seuphor, he publishes the Het Overzicht (The Panorama) in Antwerp. In April 1925, Jozef Peeters creates the "De Driehoek" (The Triangle) magazine, supporting constructivist art

Constructivism (art)

Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919, which was a rejection of the idea of autonomous art. The movement was in favour of art as a practice for social purposes. Constructivism had a great effect on modern art movements of the 20th...

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In 1930 he gives up painting and all other artistic activities.