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André Breton was an original member of the Dada group who went on to start and lead the Surrealist movement in 1924. In New York, Breton and his colleagues curated Surrealist exhibitions that introduced ideas of automatism and intuitive art making to the first Abstract Expressionists .
- French
- February 19, 1896
- Normandy, France
- September 28, 1966
André Breton (162 results) Recently Added. André Breton was an influential French writer and artist who helped form Surrealism. View André Breton’s 162 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
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Sep 28, 2011 · André Robert Breton (French: [ɑ̃dʁe ʁɔbɛʁ bʁətɔ̃]; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism.
The apartment on rue Fontaine (in the Pigalle district) became home to Breton's collection of more than 5,300 items: modern paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, books, art catalogs, journals, manuscripts, and works of popular and Oceanic art. Like his father, he was an atheist.
- Writer
- 28 September 1966 (aged 70), Paris, France
- 20th century
Born 1896. Died 1966. Nationality French. André Breton was the founder and chief theorist of the surrealist movement. Through his study of medicine and work with the insane, he became interested in irrational imagery.
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Tinebrache, France, 1896–Paris, 1966. André Breton is primarily known as the co-founder of both Paris Dada and of Surrealism, yet he was also an important player in the burgeoning market in modern art in the 1920s. Breton is the author of such Surrealist literary works as Nadja (1928) and L’amour fou [Mad love] (1937), the editor of avant ...
André Robert Breton ( French: [ɑ̃dʁe ʁɔbɛʁ bʁətɔ̃]; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto ( Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".