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1928: Reinhoud d’Haese born in Grammont in Oriental Flandre, in Belgium.

1945-46: He starts working at a Goldsmith workshop in Brussels.

1946-50: He studies at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et des Art décoratifs in Brussels where he has lecture about sculptures and steel.

1948: He makes his first sculpture.

1950: He joins Pierre Alechinsky, Christian Dotremont, Luc de Heusch, Michel Oliff, Olivier Strebelle, Hugo Claus, in workshops in the Marais in Brussels.

1951: He participates in the 2nd International exhibition of experimental-Cobra art in the Palais des Beaux Arts of Liège.

1956: First solo show at the Taptoe gallery in Brussels.

1957: He wines the award of “La Jeune Peinture Belge”. He travels in Turkey with Serge Vandercam who is shooting a film.

1959: He receives a grant from the state of Belgium.

1960: He works with Pierre Alechinsky in a school in the south of France.

1962: He makes his first drawings. First exhibition in New York.

1963: He participates in the 7th Biennale of So-Polo.

1965: He creates several monumental paper sculptures. He participates in the International exhibition of Surrealism in Paris.

1966: He participates in the Biennale of Venise.

1968: He makes several monumental wood sculptures.

1969: He wines the Eugène Baie award.

1971: He participates in the exhibition “25 Anos de Arte Belga” in Mexico.

1973: He participates in the exhibition “Master of Modern Sculpture” in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka and Kobe.

1974-1975: He visits a professor in Minneapolis College of Art and Design who makes at his disposal a studio for his creation. He crows the USA and travels with his wife and his children.

1977: The RTB channel produces the film “Reinhoud” by Jean Antoine.  

1980: Opening of “Melmoth” in Paris at the Musée de la sculpture en plein air.

1982: First engravings.

1983: He designes a sculpture for a subway station in Brussels.

1984: He starts working in a studio in the peninsula of the Cotentin, in front of the Anglo-Norman islands.

1985: He wines the State Prize of Plastic Arts of Belgium.

1991: He makes a 65 metes coloured etching.

1992: He develops his technique and prints and inks himself his etchings.

1998: Inauguration of the in situ piece “En tu cabeza esta todo lo demàs”, in Madrid.

1998-1999: Several pieces are exhibited at the Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno and the Julio Gonzàles centre in Valencia.

1999: He participates in “Cobra, the Cobra movement, 50 years”, in the Museum of Art of Hong-Kong. He also exhibits some monumental sculptures in the Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro.

He creates his first ceramic sculptures in a workshop in La Haye.

2000: He makes his first glass sculptures with a workshop in Murano.

2007: 1st of Jully, Reinhoud die in Paris. 

2009: Inauguration in Brussels of « Odyssée », a 6 metres height sculpture. 

2010: Tritrute to Reinhoud in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels.

Tribute in Danemark, to the Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelt  museum in Herning.

2011: Tribute by the city of Cannes, « La Céramique et la Sculpture en fête » at the Villa Domergue. 

2012: Blaise d’Haese makes the film « Mon sculpteur ». 

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