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- George Braque was a French painter and sculptor, one of the inventors of Cubism along with Pablo Picasso.
He was born in 1882 in Argenteul-sur-Seine, near Paris, and grew up in Le Havre, where he studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts for 2 years. He continued his studies in Paris, and earned his certificate of craftsmanship in 1901. From 1902-04 he studied at the Academie Humbert, where he met Francis Picabia.
Braque's early works (1902-05) were painted in the style of impressionists. In 1906 he entered his Fauve period, after he spent the summer with Othon Friesz in Antwerp. He became greatly influenced by Henri Matisse, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck. In 1907 he showed his Fauve-style work in the Salon des Independants in Paris. In 1908 he had his first solo show.
Braque and Pablo Picasso worked together in developing Cubism, from 1909. In the process of mutual artistic stimulation they created paintings of great consistency in their mutual resemblance, color scheme and architectonic solidity of composition. By 1911 Braque and Picasso became extremely similar in style. In 1912 both started to incorporate collage in their compositions. Their artistic collaboration lasted until the beginning of WWI in 1914. Both artists enjoyed financial and spiritual support from Gertrude Stein.
Braque served in the French army during WWI and was wounded on the battlefield. Upon his recovery in 1917 he moved on towards the new forms. His work became freer and more abstract. In the 1920s he worked with Sergei Diaghilev on two productions of the Russian Ballets. His fame grew and his first important retrospective took place at the Kunsthalle Basel (1933). He won First Prize at the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (1937). He remained in Paris during WWII and continued making paintings, lithographs, engravings and sculpture until his death in 1963.
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- SpouseMarcelle Laprè(1925 - August 31, 1963) (his death)
- Georges Braque was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor.
- Braque died in Paris. A state funeral was held in his honor in the Cour Carrée of the Louvre. He is buried in the cemetery of the Church of St. Valery in Varengeville-sur-Mer, Normandy whose windows he designed.
- In 1952-53 he produced "The Birds", a ceiling painting for a room in the Louvre.
- He grew up in Le Havre and trained to be a house painter and decorator like his father and grandfather. However, he also studied artistic painting during evenings at the École supérieure d'art et design Le Havre-Rouen, previously known as the École supérieure des Arts in Le Havre, from about 1897 to 1899.
- Braque's work between 1908 and 1912 is closely associated with that of his colleague Pablo Picasso. Their respective Cubist works were indistinguishable for many years, yet the quiet nature of Braque was partially eclipsed by the fame and notoriety of Picasso.
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