Braque, Georges

* May 13, 1882 - † August 31, 1963

biography

Born on May 13, 1882 in Argenteuil-sur-Seine, Braque initially trained with a decorative painter in Le Havre. After his military service, he studied from 1902 at the Académie Humbert in Paris and in 1903 in Léon Bonnat's studio at the École des Beaux-Arts. Braque was impressed by the works of the Fauves and joined them in 1905. He later dealt with pictures by Cézanne and Picasso, then changed his painting style and was rejected at an exhibition at the Autumn Salon in 1908; one critic called Braque's works "bizarreries cubiques" from which the name "cubism" followed. From 1908 onwards he worked closely with Picasso and, with him, shaped Cubism and thus modern painting for years before he developed the technique of collage in 1912. After the First World War, in which Braque was wounded, his contact with Picasso was almost lost; Braque again increasingly worked with color as a means of expression. After the Second World War, his “studio and bird pictures” were mainly created. Braque is one of the most important modern artists who also maintained the French tradition of landscape painting. He died on August 31, 1963 in Paris