1. Victor Brauner was born in Piatra Neamt, Romania, the son of a Jewish timber manufacturer who subsequently settled in Vienna with his family for a few years.
17 Facts About Victor Brauner
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Victor Brauner attended the National School of Fine Arts in Bucharest and Horia Igirosanu private school of painting.
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Victor Brauner visited Falticeni and Balcic, and started painting landscapes in the manner of Paul Cezanne.
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Victor Brauner painted and exhibited Christ at the Cabaret and The Girl in the Factory.
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Victor Brauner participated to the Contimporanul exhibition in November 1924.
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Victor Brauner lived on Moulin Vert Street, in the same building as Alberto Giacometti and Tanguy.
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Victor Brauner painted Self-portrait with enucleated eye, a premonitory theme.
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Victor Brauner joined the ranks of the Romanian Communist Party for a short while, without a very firm conviction, but campaigned for the party with the surrealists Mary Stanley Low and Juan Ramon Brea when they visited him.
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Victor Brauner attempted to protect Esteban and was hit by a glass thrown by Dominguez: the premonition became true.
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Victor Brauner created a series of paintings called lycanthropic or sometimes chimeras.
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Victor Brauner left Paris during Nazi Germany's invasion of France in 1940, together with Pierre Mabille.
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Victor Brauner painted Prelude to a civilization in 1954, now in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Victor Brauner settled in Varengeville in Normandy, where he spent most of his time working.
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Victor Brauner's last painting, La fin et le debut, reminds us that "when the painter's life ends, his work starts living".
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Victor Brauner died in Paris as a result of a prolonged illness.
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Victor Brauner's brother, Harry Brauner, was a folklorist who later married Lena Constante.
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Victor Brauner was a very prolific artist, especially considering his relatively short life span.