Jos de Mey

Jos de Mey ( born February 10, 1928 in Sint- Denijs- Westrem, Belgium, East Flanders Province; † December 22, 2007 in Ghent ) was a Flemish artist and graphic designer. De Mey studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent and was known for his images of "impossible " figures, which are based on optical illusions. His surrealistic drawings evoke the works of MC Escher, Rene Magritte and Sandro Del Prete -.

He studied from 1942 to 1949 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, where he was hired in 1950 as a teacher. He taught at the Academy interior design and color harmony. In 1970, the architectural education was separated from the Academy and so was Mey lecturer at the new Municipal Higher Institute of Architecture. He taught there until 1980. Several times he was also a guest lecturer at the Institute of psychology of color active in Salzburg.

In the fifties and sixties of the 20th century, he maintained his own studio for interior design, color theory and furniture design. From 1968 he turned to the activity as a painter. During this time he underwent a development that him from abstract constructivism to realism with false perspectives and impossible figurative representations and constructions. The focus on architecture and nature in his works led him to the spatial structure, questions of incidence of light and matter.

De Mey lived in Zomergem.