Biography of Constantin Brancusi

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19 February 1876
March 16, 1957
Constantin Brâncuşi February 19, 1876 in Romania the day is born in Peştişani and grew up in in the village of Hobiţa. After his studies in sculpture at the Academy of Bucharest (from 1898 to 1901), works between Austria and Germany, in Vienna and Munich, in the period between 1899 and 1904. He then moved to Paris to join the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1906 he participated with some sculptures at the Salon d'Automne, where she met Auguste Rodin. In 1908 he established a friendship with Amedeo Modigliani, Erik Satie and Marcel Duchamp. Among others also knows Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse and Henri Rousseau. Maintains a constant relationship with Romania, where he frequently returned to exhibit his works almost every year in Bucharest. In 1913 the five sculptures in the exhibition exposes Armony Show in New York. In 1914 Alfred Stieglitz presents the first solo exhibition of the work of Brancusi in his gallery "291" in New York. From 1914 to 1918 Brancusi creates a series of wooden sculptures that highlight his interest in Primitivism.
In the period following the first world war he devoted himself to abstraction and the pursuit of form-type, the shape's parent. In India plans a temple of meditation for the Maharajah of Indore. Among his pupils there is Brancusi's famous Isamu Noguchi. Brancusi never was a member of an artistic movement organized, although at the beginning of the 20 have attended Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia and many other Dadaists. In 1921 the literary magazine "The Little Review" devotes a special issue. In 1926 he went twice in the United States to attend to the personal set up at the Wildensteine and the Brummer Gallery in New York.
The following year he gets involved in a process promoted by customs of the United States to determine whether his sculpture "Bird in space" is subject to tax in that artifact or should be considered a work of art. In 1928 is legally declared as artwork. During the 1930s Brancusi makes numerous trips, visiting India, Egypt and several European countries. In 1935 he was commissioned to create a memorial for Park of Targu Jiu in Romania and designs a collection of sculptures, which constitute the most important work that Constantin Brâncuşi left to you. The collection of his works for the Park, includes portals, tables, stools and an "endless column". After the 1939 Brancusi works alone in Paris. He completed his last sculpture, the chalk "Grand coq", in 1949. Gets a French citizen in 1952. Constantin Brancusi dies in Paris the day March 16, 1957, at the age of 81 years.
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