Georges Limbour
Georges Limbour (born August 11, 1900 in Courbevoie , France , † May 17, 1970 in Chiclana de la Frontera near Cádiz , Spain ) was a French writer , philosopher and poet .
Life
The son of a military man spent his childhood in Le Havre . The desire to travel arose in him early on. He began to write around 1915. He was friends with Pierre Bost , Jean Dubuffet , Jean Piel , Raymond Queneau and Armand Salacrou . In 1918 he moved to Paris with Dubuffet to study philosophy. From 1926 to 1929 he studied in Albania , Egypt and Warsaw . In André Masson's studio he met Antonin Artaud , Michel Leiris , Joan Miró and other surrealists, after which he became a member of the surrealist movement . In 1930 he separated from the group around André Breton and joined the surrealist splinter group around Georges Bataille . He had previously published essays in Bataille's dissident surrealist magazine Documents , including reflections on Paul Klee (Issue 1, 1929). In January 1930 he was a signatory of the protest pamphlet Un Cadavre directed against Breton . In the following years he wrote under several pseudonyms (as "Garance", "Antimoine Chevalet" or "André Lacombe") essays on artists. He was a regent of the Collège de 'Pataphysique (appointed before 1969).
Limbour, who throughout his life felt a strong bond with the sea, which he also expressed in poetry, died in May 1970 in a swimming accident on the beach in Cádiz.
Works
- Poems
- 1924: Soleils bas . Galerie Simon, Paris 1924
- Novels and short stories
- 1930: L'Illustre cheval blanc . Gallimard, Paris
- 1938: Les Vanilliers . Gallimard, Paris 1938; German: The scent of vanilla . Novel. From the French by Maria Schewe; Manholt, Bremen 1992, ISBN 3-924903-92-1
- 1939: La Pie voleuse . Gallimard, Paris 1939
- 1945: L'Enfant polar . Fontaine, Paris 1945
- 1948: Le Bridge de Madame Lyane , Gallimard, Paris 1948
- 1959: Le Calligraphe . Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris 1959
- 1963: La Chasse au mérou . Gallimard, Paris 1963
Posthumously
- 1986: Le Carnaval et les civilisés (magazine article 1930–1968; foreword by Michel Leiris, drawings by André Masson) L'Elocoquent, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-86826-000-4 .
- Plays
- 1966: Les Espagnols à Venise . Hatje, Stuttgart 1966
- 1967: Élocoquente . Gallimard, Paris 1967
- About painting
- 1947: André Masson et son univers ; with Michel Leiris, Les Trois collines, Lausanne 1947
- 1951: André Masson dessins . Editions Braun, Paris 1951
- 1953: L' Art brut de Jean Dubuffet , Editions René Drouin, Paris 1953
- 1958: Foreword to André Masson: Entretiens avec Georges Charbonnier , Julliard, Paris 1958
- 1961: André Beaudin , Verve, Paris 1961
- 1962: Hayter , Le Musée de Poche, Editions Georges Fall, Paris 1962
Posthumously
- 1986: Dans le secret des ateliers (magazine article 1946–1971 about Georges Braque, Jean Dubuffet, Alberto Giacometti , Stanley William Hayter , Wassily Kandinsky , Elie Lascaux , André Masson, Pablo Palazuelo , Pablo Picasso , Germaine Richier , Yves Rouvre, Nicolas de Staël , Tal Coat , Raoul Ubac ) L'Elocoquent, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-86826-001-2 .
literature
- Loredana Bianchi-Longoni: Limbour dans le surréalisme . Lang, 1987, ISBN 3-261-03696-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Georges Limbour in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Habarta: Lexicon of the fantastic artists . Books on Demand, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-8427-6 , pp. 273-274
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Limbour, Georges |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Garance (pseudonym); Chevalet, Antimoine (pseudonym); Lacombe, André (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer, philosopher and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Courbevoie , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th May 1970 |
| Place of death | near Cádiz , Spain |