Victor Brauner
Victor Brauner (born June 15, 1903 in Piatra Neamț , Romania , † March 12, 1966 in Paris ) was a French painter of Romanian descent and an important exponent of Surrealism .
Life
Brauner, who came from a Jewish family, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest (today: National University of the Arts Bucharest ) in 1921 and founded the Dadaist journal 75 HP in 1924 .
He was friends with Hedda Sterne's parents and brought them closer to surrealism. In 1930 he moved to Paris, where he joined the surrealist movement. In 1933 André Breton , whom he portrayed in 1934, helped him to have his first solo exhibition there.
In 1938 Brauner lost his left eye to a glass splinter in a physical dispute between Oscar Dominguez and Esteban Frances, in which he intervened. Mysteriously, Brauner had created several works in the previous years with which he anticipated this loss, as it were, especially the painting Self-portrait With Enucleated Eye from 1931, in which he depicts himself with only one eye.
In 1940 the painter fled from the National Socialists to the Pyrenees and later to the Alps. After the war he returned to Paris, where he died of phlebitis in 1966 . He is buried in the Montmartre cemetery.
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Brauner's works are prominently represented both in Paris (in the Musée National d'Art Moderne , in the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris ) and in Strasbourg (in the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain ). He took part in documenta II in Kassel in 1959.
Like Constantin Brâncuși , Eugène Ionesco , Mircea Eliade , Panait Istrati and Emil Cioran , Brauner belonged to the important community of Romanians in exile in Paris in the first half of the 20th century.
He wrote for the magazine Contimporanul .
Works (selection)
- Loup-table (Wolftisch), 1939–1947, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Center Georges Pompidou, Paris
literature
- Verena Kuni: Victor Brauner: The artist as seer, magician and alchemist. 1995, ISBN 3631478100
- The Menil Collection: Victor Brauner. Surrealist hieroglyphs. 2001, ISBN 3775710884
- Agnes Husslein-Arco (ed.): Victor Brauner - The fantastic picture sheet. Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz , Weitra 2004, ISBN 3-85252-577-2
- Claus Stephani: The image of the Jew in modern painting. An introduction. / Imaginea evreului în pictura modernă. Introductiv study. Traducere in limba română de Ion Peleanu. (Bilingual edition, German-Romanian. Ediţie bilingvă, româno-germană.) Editura Hasefer: Bucureşti, 2005. ISBN 973-630-091-9
- Claus Stephani: One of them was Victor Brauner. The big names of the European avant-garde. In: David. Jüdische Kulturzeitschrift (Vienna), Volume 18, No. 68, April 2006, pp. 46–48 (online)
Web links
- Literature by and about Victor Brauner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Victor Brauner in the documenta archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brauner, Victor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Piatra Neamț , Romania |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1966 |
| Place of death | Paris |