Discover sculptor, draftsperson, painter Constantin Brancusi

Qualifications: sculptor, draftsperson, painter, photographer, woodcarver, assemblage artist, art theorist, monumental artist

Nationality/school: Romanian, French
in 1957 tot Frans staatsburger genaturaliseerd

Born: Pestisani 1876-02-21

Deceased: Paris 1957-03-16

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4 hits in RKDimages as artist
45 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1904 - 1956
ca. 1904-1956

Education: Roemenië: opleiding

van 1894-09-01 tot 1898-09-28 Kunstnijverheidschool in Craiova
Academia de Arte (Art Academy Boekarest)

1898-1902
École des Beaux-Arts (Parijs)

vanaf 1905 stipendium beeldende kunst bij Marius Jean Antonin Mercié

Active in

Parijs 1904-05
reisde naar Parijs door Boedapest, Wenen, München en Zürich. Hij heeft kort gewerkt aan het atelier van Auguste Rodin (als zijn assistent). In 1908 kennismaking met B. Henri Rousseau, Matisse, Fernand Leger en Modigliani.
Livorno 1909
op reis met Modigliani
Boekarest 1909
bevriend met Alexander Archipenko
Parijs 1912
toonde zijn werk aan de Salon des Indépendants; bevriend met Marcel Duchamp
New York City 1913
deelname aan de 'Armory Show '
Roemenië 1914-05 - 1914-06
op reis door Boedapest, Craiova en Hobita; Verblijf in Villa van E.Steichen, in Voulangis, met Marius de Zayas en Agnes E. Meyer.
Parijs 1915 - 1926
vanaf 1915, met onderbrekingen: reisde naar New York (1917). Vanaf 1916 eigen atelier.
Verenigde Staten van Amerika 1926
kennismaking met de architect William Lescaze
Villefranche-sur-Saône 1930
Aix-les-Bains - zomerverblijf met Duchamp en Mary Reynolds
India 1938
op reis
Egypte 1938
op reis
1939
Hij was van plan om daar zijn 'Unendliche Säulein' in het leven roepen als een volkenkrabber.

active in

died in

Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Georgescu, Ion
Hegel, Vladimir
Mercié, Marius Jean Antonin
Rodin, Auguste
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Anghel, Gheorghe
Colvin, Marta
Pogany, Willy
Ray, Man
Turnbull, William (1922-2012)

Man Ray heeft van Brancusi een paar fotolessen gekregen.
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Aalto, Alvar
Andre, Carl
Arp, Hans
Avramidis, Joannis
Benevelli, Giacomo
Bertoni, Wander
Bissier, Julius Heinrich
Boskov, Petar Hadzi
Franchina, Nino
Hermes, Gertrude
Huggins, John
Kennethson, George
Moore, Henry (1898-1986)
Signori, Carlo Sergio
Soshana, Afroyim
Tucker, William
Svoboda, Rudolf
Lipchitz, Jacques
Noguchi, Isamu
Polk Smith, Leon
Maaskant, Jan

Richard Serra

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: figure, figure, animal painting (genre), portrait, nude figure, mythology, abstraction
Roemeense mythologie was zijn inspiratiebron.

Medium/technique: moulding plaster, marble, bronze, metal, wood, gouache (material/technique)
Product: bust (sculpture), sepulchral monument, monument

Art movement Here we mention the art movement to which an artist belonged. Many art movements have not yet been entered, because the content of this field is still under development.: De Stijl
vanaf 1927

Member of

6. Salon der Allied Artists Association (Londen); ontmoeting met Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 45 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Arnhem 1966A , p. 17, afb. p. 60
Bénézit 1976 , vol.2, p. 270
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 39
Saur 1992- , vol. 13 (1996), p. 590

Tent.cat. '13 beeldhouwers uit Parijs', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1948
P. Roché, 'Souvenir sur Brancusi', L'oeil 27 (mei1957), p. 12-17
H.L. Jaffé, De Stijl 1917-1931 - the Dutch contribution to modern art, dissertatie, Amsterdam 1956, p. 33
H. Bavelaar, Kroniek van kunst en kultuur, Leiden 1998
E. Shanes, 'Love triumphant-again', Apollo (augustus 2004), p. 62-65
C. Giménez, M. Gale (eds.), Contantin Brancusi. The Essence of Things, London 2004
T. Winkfield, ' Walks around Brancusi', in: Modern Painters, dl. 17, nr. 3, autumn 2004, p. 102-106
L. Paulson, 'Masterworks. Exemplary wworks by Rothko and Brancusi from the Collection of Edward R. Broida', Christie's Magazine, September-October 2005, p. 32-33
S. Geist, Brancusi + Mondrian: a sum, a summa; in: Artforum feb. 1983, p. 68-71
G. a. Johnson, 'All concrete shapes dissolve in light' : photgraphing sculpture from Rodin to Brancusi', Sculpture Journal 15 (2006), nr. 2, p. 199-222
Künstlerphotographien im XX.Jahrhundert (exh.cat. Hannover, 1977) (NFM)
Auer, M.: Index (1992) (NFM)
Tajan, Jacques (Vente organisée et dirigée par): Photographies des XIXe et XXe siècles. Paris - Hôtel Drouot - 10 Mai 1995 (auct. cat. 1995) (NFM)
Fémininmasculin. Le sexe de l'art (tent.cat. Paris 1995) (NFM)
Dictionnaire de la Photo (Larousse, 1996) (NFM)
Lenman, Robin (ed.): The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005) (NFM)
A. Lazevnick, 'Impossible descriptions in Mina Loy and Constantin Brancusi's ''Golden Bird'' ', Word & Image 29 (2013), nr. 2, p. 192-202

Documentation RKD

This field specifies the location of the various RKD documentation materials. Most of the locations refer to our art-historical image documentation. In addition, you will find references to press documentation (clippings and short articles) here.

Archive location: archief Abraham M.W.J. (Bram) Hammacher
archief H.L.C. Jaffé
Archief en bibliotheek Theo en Nelly van Doesburg
Project: Modern sculpture

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