Until its cessation in 1925 it was the major avant-garde magazine in the country and published a total of 24 issues.

[2][3] The magazine was subtitled as Half-Maandelijks Tijdschrift: Kunst, Letteren, Mensheid.

[5] Then it became a modernist periodical of European stature[5] and adopted a constructivist,[6] dadaist and avant-garde approach.

[3] The magazine published a special issue on Italian futurism in December 1922.

[9] Michel Seuphor and Jozef Peeters were the editors of Het Overzicht of which regular contributors included Geert Grub, Georges Walz, Alice Nahon,[5] Victor Brunclair [nl], Leo Steiner, Gaston Burssens and Michel Seuphor.