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GERMAN BIOGRAPHIE

Braque, Georges
1882 Argenteuil,
France 1963 Paris
 

A co-founder of Cubism, to which his style remained beholden throughout his career, Braque had to wait a relatively (ong time for the recognition that was due him. Initially, around 1905, his friendship with Raoul Dufy brought him into the circle around Henri Matisse, known as the Fauves. The year 1907 marked his first encounter with Pablo Picasso, who had just finished the painting that would spark the development of Cubism, the famous Les Demoiselles dAvignon. Braque's first Cubist picture, still strongly influenced by Cezanne, was done in 1908, in L Estaque. In November of that same year Braque exhibited in the Paris gallery of the young Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, which would become the forum of Cubism. In his initial Cubist phase, the Analytical style developed in con- junction with Picasso, Braque pursued the aim of "taking complete possession of things". Objects were taken apart, split, as it were, like crystals along the lines of fracture, and rearranged in the form of superimposed planes. "When fragmented objects appeared in my pictures in about igog", Braque stated, "they gave me an opportunity to come as close to an object as painting permitted". Space and volumes were evoked not by means of perspective but solely through a multiplicity of aspects, for it was an essential feature of Cubism to show things from several points of view simultaneously, seemingly leading to a compression oftime and space. In about spring 1912 Braque began to employ, as Jean Leymarie has written, an "oval format that circumscribed right-angled refraction and lent the picture plane a greater concision and perceptible internal vibration". The oval composition in our collection, Glass, Violin, and Sheet of Music (1912}, evinces the Cubists' penchant for musical instruments, and also the gray and ocher hues that dominated their work during the Analytical phase. By about 1912-13, a transition was underway to the Synthetic phase of Cubism, in which actual objects were introduced into abstract com- positions - by the technique of collage. In August 1914, Braque and Picasso were separated by the war. Braque entered the French army, and was seriously wounded in combat in 1915, It was not until 1917 that he had recuperated to the point of being able to resume painting. "I am concerned with orienting myself to nature, not with copying her", Braque aptly described the creative phase that now began. His style, initially retaining collage-like elements, grew more individual, his pictures more colorful, painterly, and more closely based on reality. The Cubist still life became Braque's favorite motif. Carofe, Lernons, Fruit Bowl dates from the period 1924-1928, duringwhich the artist began to emphasize the factor of depth and space in his compositions and to explore "how far one could go in combining volumes and color". It is one of four pictures in the same format of which mosaic versions were made for the collector Paul Rosenberg.
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