14 Facts About Pierre Albert-Birot

Pierre Albert-Birot was a French avant-garde poet, dramatist, and theater manager.

Pierre Albert-Birot was a steadfast avant-garde during World War I, through the magazine Sic he created and published from 1916 to 1919.

Since he wanted to be a painter, Pierre Albert-Birot met Gustave Moreau and Gerome at this time.

Pierre Albert-Birot's daughters entered the Orphanage of the Arts in Courbevoie, and his sons entered the Fraternity of Artists.

From January 1916 to December 1919, Pierre Albert-Birot edited the avant-garde art magazine SIC: Sons Idees Couleurs, Formes, which featured writings by Futurists, Dadaists and Surrealists.

SIC was a focus for many avant-garde initiatives, even those which Pierre Albert-Birot himself disliked, but he believing in independence and objectivity.

Pierre Albert-Birot Albert Birot escaped general mobilization due to respiratory insufficiency during World War I, and, according to his own words, was really born during the creation of the magazine SIC in 1916, when he definitively adopted his artist name, adding his second name to his surname.

Germaine Pierre Albert-Birot died in 1931, and the poet of light was forced to don the clothes of mourning.

Pierre Albert-Birot spent much of his time listening to the radio with headphones on an old galena machine.

Pierre Albert-Birot became his wife in 1962, and through her efforts, she helped to bring her husband's work out of obscurity.

Pierre Albert-Birot's poetry is inseparable from his early theatrical work: lyric, funny and eminently modern.

Pierre Albert-Birot was a very singular man, a fringe poet who fascinated later generations with fanciful novels such as the 1934.

Pierre Albert-Birot wrote literary translations of Homer, Eschylus and Virgil, translations of medieval poets into Modern French, and studies of prosody.

In 1917, Pierre Albert-Birot directed the first performance of by Guillaume Apollinaire, a friend who had been a contributor to SIC.