Constantin Brâncuși, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Constantin Brâncuși

French-Romanian sculptor, photographer and painter

Date of Birth: 19-Feb-1876

Place of Birth: Hobița, Gorj County, Romania

Date of Death: 16-Mar-1957

Profession: photographer, painter, sculptor

Nationality: France, Romania

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Constantin Brâncu?i (Romanian: [konstan'tin br??'ku??] (listen); February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France.
Considered a pioneer of modernism, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century, Brâncu?i is called the patriarch of modern sculpture.
As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools.
Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1905 to 1907.
His art emphasizes clean geometrical lines that balance forms inherent in his materials with the symbolic allusions of representational art.
Brâncu?i sought inspiration in non-European cultures as a source of primitive exoticism, as did Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, André Derain and others.
However, other influences emerge from Romanian folk art traceable through Byzantine and Dionysian traditions.



Alternative names	Eduard Jean Steichen
Description	Luxembourgish-American photographer, painter, war photographer, curator and fashion photographer
Date of birth/death	27 March 1879	25 March 1973
Location of birth/death	Bivange	Redding
Authority control	: Q313899 VIAF: 73926135 ISNI: 0000 0001 2096 418X ULAN: 500000431 LCCN: n80025899 NAID: 10581940 WorldCat