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| France | 14 |
| Germany | 10 |
| USA | 9 |
| Italy | 4 |
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Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, France |
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Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, France |
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Ubu Gallery, USA |
3 |
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Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, USA |
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Photo: www.neamt.ro
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15.6.1903 Born in Piatra-Neamt (RO)
Victor Brauner was born on June 15, 1903, in Piatra-Neamt, Romania. His father was involved in spiritualism and sent Brauner to evangelical school in Braïla from 1916 to 1918. In 1921 he briefly attended the School of Fine Arts in Bucharest, where he painted Cézannesque landscapes. He exhibited paintings in his subsequent expressionist style at his first solo show at the Galerie Mozart in Bucharest in 1924. Brauner helped found the Dadaist review 75 HP in Bucharest. He went to Paris in 1925 but returned to Bucharest approximately a year later. In Bucharest in 1929 Brauner was associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist review UNU. Brauner settled in Paris in 1930 and became a friend of his compatriot Constantin Brancusi. Then he met Yves Tanguy, who introduced him to the Surrealists by 1933. André Breton wrote an enthusiastic introduction to the catalogue for Brauner’s first Parisian solo show at the Galerie Pierre in 1934. The exhibition was not well-received, and in 1935 Brauner returned to Bucharest, where he remained until 1938. That year he moved to Paris, lived briefly with Tanguy, and painted a number of works featuring distorted human figures with mutilated eyes. Some of these paintings, dated as early as 1931, proved gruesomely prophetic when he lost his own eye in a scuffle in 1938. At the outset of World War II Brauner fled to the South of France, where he maintained contact with other Surrealists in Marseilles. Later he sought refuge in Switzerland; unable to obtain suitable materials there, he improvised an encaustic from candle wax and developed a graffito technique. Brauner returned to Paris in 1945. He was included in the Exposition internationale du surréalisme at the Galerie Maeght in Paris in 1947. His postwar painting incorporated forms and symbols based on Tarot cards, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and antique Mexican codices. In the fifties Brauner traveled to Normandy and Italy, and his work was shown at the Venice Biennale in 1954 and in 1966. He died in Paris on March 12, 1966.
12.3.1966 Died in Paris (FR)
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Public exhibitions 49
until 21.2.2010
until 15.2.2010
until 14.2.2010
until 31.1.2010
until 11.1.2010
until 29.11.
until 22.11.
Solo shows 4
2003
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| Victor Brauner (1903–1966) - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Desene 1925 - 1962 - The National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest |
1992
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| Victor Brauner dessinateur : dessins de la collection du Musée d'art moderne - Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne |
1988
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| Victor Brauner : Œuvres léguées par Jacqueline Victor-Brauner - Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne |
Group shows 38
2009
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| Colours of the Avant Garde. Art in Romania 1910 - 1950 - MNAC - Museu do Chiado, Lisbon |
2008
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| Traces du Sacré - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
2007
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| Peggy Guggenheim E L’immaginario Surreale - Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice |
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| Merveilleux! D´après nature - Château de Malbrouck , Manderen |
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| Ateliers - L'artistes et ses lieux de création - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| International & Australian Works on Paper - Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2006
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| Da Monet a Boltanski - Fondazione Magnani - Rocca, Parma |
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| Nomaden im Kunstsalon - Begegnungen mit der Moderne von Bayer bis Sol LeWitt - Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz |
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| La collection permanente - Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne |
2005
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| Looking at Words - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| (my private) Heroes - MARTa Herford, Herford |
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| Invisible Revealed: Surrealist Drawings from the Drukier Collection - Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS |
2004
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| The Invisible Revealed: Surrealist Drawings from the Drukier Collection - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
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| Munch, Nolde, Beckmann... Private Kunstschätze aus Süddeutschland - Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart |
2003
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| "Phantom der Lust. Visionen des Masochismus in der Kunst" - Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
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| Accrochage des artistes de la galerie (modernes et contemporains) - Galerie Di Meo, Paris |
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| Arbeiten auf Papier - Galerie Dreiseitel, Cologne |
2002
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| Exemplum del disegno europeo del Novecento - Galleria Open Art, Prato |
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| La Culture Pour Vivre - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| La part de l'autre - Carré d´art - Musée d´art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes |
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| La Révolution surréaliste - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Behind the Surrealist Curtain: Sex, Sensuality and Silence - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Sade surreal - Der Marquis de Sade und die erotische Fantasie des Surrealismus - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
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| De Artaud ... à Twombly - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
1999
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| Dau al Set - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona |
1998
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| Rumanian Avant-Garde, 1916–1947 - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
1996
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| By Night - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
1995
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| 46th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1994
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| Hantises - Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva |
1989
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| Open Mind (Gesloten Circuits) - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
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| 60 Meisterwerke aus der Solomon R. Gugenheim Foundation - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
1969
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| Malerei des Surrealismus - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
1965
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| Personal Choice: Paintings and Sculpture from Houston Private Collections - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1959
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| documenta 2 - Documenta, Kassel |
1958
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| Personal Contacts: A Decade of Contemporary Drawings, 1948–1958 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| The Disquieting Muse: Surrealism - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
| Dealer Directory 15 |
Canada
| | Landau Fine Art Inc., Montreal, QC
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France
| | Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris
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| | Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris
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| | Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris
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Germany
| | Galerie Dreiseitel, Cologne
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Italy
| | Tornabuoni Arte, Florence
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United Kingdom
| | Adam Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | Rachel Adler Fine Art, New York City, NY
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| | Timothy Baum, New York City, NY
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| | Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
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| | Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY
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Public collections 19
Canada
| | National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON
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Finland
| | Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere
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France
| | Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar
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| | Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris
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| | Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
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| | Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne
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| | Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
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Greece
| | MMCA Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
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Italy
| | Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna - GAM, Bologna
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| | Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
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Mexico
| | Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
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Portugal
| | Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
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Spain
| | Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca
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USA
| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Museum of Art and Archaeology, Columbia, MO
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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Catalogs
| | Aus dem Kreis des Surrealismus in Paris 1925 - 1935- Galerie Dreiseitel, Cologne |
| | Victor Brauner- Galerie Dreiseitel, Cologne |
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