About

Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920-2005) started his artistic career as a painter and was co-founder
of the CoBrA movement in 1948. His stay in post-war London in the early fifties and friendship
with Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth caused his dramatic change towards – what
he would call – ‘New Babylon’, a utopian world vision for post-war generations. From 1956
onwards he created not only paintings but started making sculptures and structures in which
his ideology and plans for ‘New Babylon’ were visualized.
After World War II there was a clear shift towards more spare-time. Society became more
modern …