10 Facts About Alexandre Mercereau

Alexandre Mercereau was a French symbolist poet and critic associated with Unanimism and the Abbaye de Creteil.

Alexandre Mercereau founded the Villa Medicis Libre, which helped impoverished artists and operated as charitable reformatory for delinquent teenagers.

Alexandre Mercereau organized exhibitions of French artists in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Kiev, and Odessa.

Alexandre Mercereau subsequently co-founded the Revue independante and La Rue, in addition to Vers et Prose.

Alexandre Mercereau returned to Paris in the Spring of 1907 with a Russian wife.

Alexandre Mercereau exhibited his seascapes at the 1909 Salon des Independants, and would soon meet Albert Gleizes through Alexandre Mercereau the same year.

Alexandre Mercereau founded the Villa Medicis Libre, in Villepreux, under the patronage of Fondation Georges Bonjean, to provide inexpensive accommodations for avant-garde artists living in difficulties.

Alexandre Mercereau had previously included Gleizes' Les Brumes du Matin sur la Marne in a Russian exhibition of 1908.

That is why Alexandre Mercereau shifted his scenes so violently, why Barzun tried to solve the problem of simultaneously developing lines of action by choral chanting.

Alexandre Mercereau attempted to represent facets of time in his writings, much as Gleizes and Metzinger attempted to represent facets of space, time and form in their paintings.