Jean Emile Van Gindertael (Jean Milo)

Jean Milo , pseudonym of Jean Émile Van Gindertael , born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode in 1906 and died in Rixensart in 1993. He is a Belgian painter, essayist and novelist.

Jean Milo was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels from 1923 to 1925. In 1925 and 1926 he was part of the group called Etikhove with young painters close to the Heasaerts brothers. Between 1926 and 1931, Jean Milo held the post of deputy director of the Brussels gallery Le Centaure. As a painter he was influenced in his work by Edgard Tytgat to whom he dedicated a biography. He co-founded the Abstract Art group in 1952. In the 1960s, he produced a series of medium-sized photocollages, several of which are kept by the Verbeke Foundation in Kemzeke, Belgium.