René Brô

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

René Brô , actually René Brault (born November 21, 1930 in Charenton-le-Pont near Paris , † December 6, 1986 in Courgeron, municipality of Le Pin-au-Haras , Orne department ) was a French painter.

life and work

René Brô finished his normal schooling at the age of fourteen and then attended various art schools. As a frequent visitor to the Musée de l'Homme and the Louvre , he was particularly impressed by Art brut and ancient Egyptian art. His works from this period are also reminiscent of Paul Klee .

In 1949, after his first participation in an exhibition, Brô hitchhiked through Italy with his future wife Micheline Breuil and Bernard Rousseau and met the Austrian painter Hundertwasser in Florence , with whom he subsequently became a lifelong friend. In 1950, together with Hundertwasser, he created two wall paintings in an old hunting pavilion belonging to the Dumage family in Saint-Mandé near Paris, which was later destroyed. So the mural La pêche miraculeuse came to the KunstHausWien , the other, Pays des arbres, des oiseaux et des poissons , to a synagogue in Long Island , New York.

From 1957 the friends shared a studio in the village of Courgeron for a few years, which Brô later kept.

1954 Brô had his first solo exhibition in Paris. In 1964 he represented France at the Venice Biennale . From 1968 the artist lived in Venice for ten years, later he traveled extensively to Tahiti, among others.

literature

  • William S. Rubin (Ed.): Primitivism in Twentieth Century Art . (Prestel, Munich, 1996) ISBN 3-7913-1716-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Biography of René Brô in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection . Retrieved April 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ Hundertwasser and Brô
  3. ^ Biography René Brô . Retrieved April 14, 2014 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Brô, René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brault, René (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Charenton-le-Pont near Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1986
Place of death Courgeron, municipality of Le Pin-au-Haras , Orne department