Artist
Albert Gleizes
French, 1881–1953
Albert Gleizes was a French Cubism Synthetic painter. 18 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art, most of them oil paintings. Albert Gleizes was born in Paris.
Albert Gleizes was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris. Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger wrote the first major treatise on Cubism, Du "Cubisme", 1912. Gleizes was a founding member of the Section d'Or group of artists.
He was also a member of Der Sturm, and his many theoretical writings were originally most appreciated in Germany, where especially at the Bauhaus his ideas were given thoughtful consideration. Gleizes spent four crucial years in New York, and played an important role in making America aware of modern art. He was a member of the Society of Independent Artists, founder of the Ernest-Renan Association, and both a founder and participant in the Abbaye de Créteil.
Gleizes exhibited regularly at Léonce Rosenberg's Galerie de l’Effort Moderne in Paris; he was also a founder, organizer and director of Abstraction-Création. From the mid-1920s to the late 1930s much of his energy went into writing, e.g., La Peinture et ses lois, Vers une conscience plastique: La Forme et l’histoire and Homocentrisme.
Works by Albert Gleizes
Collections represented
Moments involving Albert Gleizes
- The 1912 Salon des Independants Opens · 1912 The show consolidated Cubism as an international avant-garde force rather than a local Parisian provocation.
- Salon des Independants returns at the Grand Palais · 1920 It helped reset postwar Paris as a battleground for Cubism, Dada, and the public avant-garde.
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