Born in Liège, Belgium, as Guillaume Cornelis Beverloo in 1922, as the child of Dutch parents. Died in 2010 in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. Education: Corneille courses at the Amsterdam Academy but was mainly self-taught. Corneille was one of the founders and one of the handy representatives of the Cobra movement. He was a prolific artist and has created an enormous amount of paintings, sculptures and graphics. Initially strongly influenced by Picasso, but later with the Cobra style characteristics that are well known to Corneille. Corneille has worked abstractly, but from about 1960 onwards he works figuratively with the famous birds, women and flowers as subject.