Victor Brauner

Victor Brauner ( born June 15, 1903 in Piatra Neamţ, Romania, † March 12, 1966 in Paris) was a French painter of Jewish- Romanian origin and important representative of surrealism.

Life

Brown graduated in 1921, his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest ( today National University of Bucharest Arts) and founded in 1924 the Dadaist journal 75 HP. He was friends with the parents of Hedda Sterne and brought her close to surrealism. In 1930 he moved to Paris, where he joined the Surrealist movement. 1933 helped him André Breton, whom he portrayed in 1934, where his first solo exhibition.

1938 Brown lost in a tangible dispute between Oscar Dominguez and Esteban Frances, in which he intervened arbitrate, through a glass splinter the left eye. Mysteriously, Brown had previously created several works over the years, with whom he, as it anticipated this loss, especially the painting " Self-portrait With enucleated eye" of 1931, in which it presents itself with only one eye.

1940 fled the painter from the Nazis in the Pyrenees, and later in the Alps. After the war he returned to Paris, where he died in 1966 at a phlebitis. It lies in the cemetery of Montmartre buried.

Work

Brauner's works are both in Paris ( in the Musée National d' Art Moderne, Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris), as well as in Strasbourg ( at the Musée d' Art Moderne et Contemporain ) prominently represented. He participated in Kassel in 1959 at the documenta II.

Brown was one, as well as Constantin Brancusi, Eugène Ionesco, Mircea Eliade, Emil Cioran and Panait Istrati to the significant community of Parisian exile Romanians the first half of the 20th century.

He wrote for the magazine Contimporanul.