This self-taught artist from the Netherlands arrived in Paris in the twenties, and looked to Fauve and Expressionist influences and their colourful explosions. His works are filled with a powerful tension, that can be felt through the shapes that entirely cover the painting. The convulsive gesture, turbulence, drips, all seem to speak of urgency in executing the painting, as if carried away by an autonomous impetus aiming to completely and turbulently cover the canvas.