Miguel Lohlé has been living in Brussels for nearly seven years now, after twenty years in Amsterdam. Of Dutch nationality, he was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1952. At the age of nineteen, Lohlé decided to go and live in Embu, “Terra das Artes”, a little village on the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil, where he stayed for seven years. Wishing to broaden his horizons, he then set off for Europe. He settled in Spain where, full of enthusiasm, he enrolled in the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of Madrid. Soon disenchanted with academic art, he realised that he had to go his own way. Inspired by Cézanne, he travelled the Iberian Peninsula for two years, during which his work, closely connected with Nature, revealed to him his deep relationship with it. In 1981 he returned to Latin America to settle in Embu once again and live there for another four years. The development of his pictorial work became focused on external reality.

On coming back to Europe, Lohlé decided this time to live in the Netherlands, where his father came from. There he began to climb the successive rungs of his interpretation of the abstract, using all kinds of techniques and materials. He worked with artists of various tendencies and nationalities, which brought him into contact with the Phases movement, whose leader Edouard Jaguer, a contemporary of André Breton, contributed to the development of the Surrealist movement. That is how in 1996 Lohlé participated in the international exhibition “Lateinamerika und der Surrealismus” at Bochum Museum in Germany, an exhibition on the mutual influence between European and Latin American surrealism.

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