Victor Brauner, a Surrealist painter and sculptor, was born and raised in Romania, where he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Bucharest. In 1924 his first one-man show was presented at Bucharest's Galerie Mozart. He moved to Paris in 1930 where, through the sculptor Constatin Brancusi (a fellow-Romanian), he met the painter Yves Tanguy, who introduced him to other members of the Surrealist movement. The Surrealists were departing not only from the realism and academicism of nineteenth-century art but also from tendencies toward painterly abstraction of the early modernists. Partly under the influence of contemporary psychology, they sought unexpected juxtapositions of sharply depicted figurative images, often recalling the landscapes of dreams. In 1934, Andre Breton, the leader of the Surrealist movement, wrote the introduction to the catalogue for Brauner's exhibition at the Galerie Pierre.

Vorwort

Andreas Franzke

Magie und Verwandlung

Der zeichnerische Schwerpunkt im Werk von Victor Brauner

Fruthe Werke und zeichnerische Kontinuitaen

Margit Zuckriegl

Das Atmospharische im Werk von Victor Brauner

Magische Welten

Konig Ubu, Herr K. und Spieβgesellen

Das Gebaude der Liebe

Herbarium

Die gelben BlOtter

Zwischen Mensch und Tier

Wachsbilder

Portrats

Der Phantastische Bilderbogen

Martine Dancer

Das Vokabular von Victor Brauner

Biographies