Victor Brauner’s Departures and Returns
Presentation by Irina Cărăbaș, Bucharest (Romania)
followed by a conversation with Nicola Baird, PhD, London (UK)
Born in Piatra Neamț, Romania into a Jewish family, Victor Brauner (1903-1966) took part in shaping several avant-garde groups in Bucharest since his early twenties. By the mid-1930s, he oscillated between Bucharest and Paris, where he nurtured and solidified his commitment to surrealism. During this time, Brauner also began exploring the representation of the human body—an investigation that he would develop in highly diverse directions throughout his life, always maintaining a connection with surrealist concepts. He later left Romania due to the rise of antisemitism never to return. His forced hiding in France during World War II became a period of experimentation with new materials and a deep dive into esotericism. The end of the war brought both personal [...]
