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Georges Braque (May 13, 1882 - August 31, 1963)
was a French painter and sculptor, and with Pablo Picasso one of the
inventors of Cubism.
Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil-sur-Seine, France. He grew up in
Le Havre and studied in the evenings at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from
about 1897 to 1899.
He studied in Paris under a master decorator and was awarded his
certificate of craftmanship in 1901. The following year he attended the
Academie Humbert and painted there until 1904. It was here that he met
Marie Laurencin and Francis Picabia.
His early work was impressionistic, but he soon changed to a Fauvist
style. In 1907, he exhibited works in this style in the Salon des
Indépendants. From 1909 to 1911, he worked with Picasso to
develop Cubism. In 1912, they began to experiment with collage and
papier collé. Their collaboration continued until 1914.
Braque was injured in the First World War, after which he moved away
from the harsher abstraction of cubism, towards the hermetic and
synthetic forms - the most abstract forms of cubism.
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