Victor Brauner Biography
Pietra-Naemtz, Romania,1903 - Paris, France,1966
A Romanian master, Victor Brauner has achieved international fame. His art, obsessed with the real and unreal, and laden with symbolic eroticism, feeds off of ancient mythology as well as popular art.
He lived his childhood and adolescence in Bucharest, where he worked with the Romanian vanguard. In 1924 he founded the painting and poetry magazine 75HP. In 1930 he moved to Paris where he met the surrealists with whom he united, participating in their exhibitions while maintaining his original and slightly rebellious style.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2006 - PicassoMio.com - Was ist Plastik? 100 Jahre - 100 Kopfe- Das Jahrhundert moderner Skulptur. Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum / Center of International Sculpture, Duisburg. - Da Monet a Boltanski. Fondazione Magnani - Rocca, Parma, Italy. - Nomaden im Kunstsalon - Begegnungen mit der Moderne von Bayer bis Sol LeWitt. Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz - La collection permanente. Musee dArt moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint- Etienne, France.
2005 - Looking at Words. Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA. - (my private) Heroes. MARTA Herford, Herford
2004 - The Invisible Revealed: Surrealist Drawings from the Drukier Collection- The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, USA. - Munch, Nolde, Beckmann... Private Kunstschatze aus Suddeutschland. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
2003 - Kunstlerphotographien - Beruhmte Photographen portraitieren beruhmte Kunstler. Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany. - Phantom der Lust. Visionen des Masochismus in der Kunst. Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz - Accrochage des artistes de la galerie (modernes et contemporains) . Galerie Di Meo, Paris, France. - Arbeiten auf Papier. Galerie Dreiseitel, Cologne.
2002 - Exemplum del disegno europeo del Novecento. Galleria Open Art, Prato - La part de lautre. Carre d'art - Musee d'art contemporain de Nimes, Nimes, France. - La Revolution surrealiste. Centre Pompidou - Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France.
2001 - Desene 1925 - 1962. Museo nacional de Arte de Rumania. Bucarest, Romania. - Sade surreal - Der Marquis de Sade und die erotische Fantasie des Surrealismus. Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
1999 - Dau al Set . Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona, Spain.
SELECTED MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: - National Gallery of Canada - Musee des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, Notario, Canada. - Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris, France. - Centre Pompidou - Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France. - Musee d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France. - Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy. - Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venecia, Italy. - Es Baluard Museu d?Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, USA. - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA. - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, USA. - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA. - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA.
