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René Magritte
Belgian surrealist (1898–1967)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 21 November 1898
- Died
- 15 August 1967
- Place of birth
- Lessines
- Place of death
- Schaerbeek
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Magritte
- Spouse
- Georgette Berger
- Sibling
- Paul Magritte
- Movement
- Belgian surrealism
- Genre
- animal art, figure, landscape painting, nude, portrait, cityscape, still life, interior view, surrealism
- Field of work
- painting
- Occupation
- painter, illustrator, draftsperson, photographer, printmaker, filmmaker, sculptor, architectural drafter, collagist, graphic artist, visual artist
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Native language
- French
- artist files at
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Library and Archives, Frick Art Research Library, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, College for Creative Studies Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- birth name
- René François Ghislain Magritte
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- copyright representative
- reproduction right represented by CISAC-member, Charly Herscovici, Charly Herscovici, Artists Rights Society
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- educated at
- Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels
- end of work period
- 1967
- ethnic group
- Walloon people
- has works in the collection
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Minneapolis Institute of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Auckland Art Gallery, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Tate, National Gallery of Art
- influenced by
- Hieronymus Bosch, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, André Breton
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of political party
- Communist Party of Belgium
- name in native language
- René François Ghislain Magritte
- notable work
- The Treachery of Images, The Mysteries of the Horizon, Golconda, The lovers, The Empire of Lights, The Son of Man, The Human Condition, Not to be Reproduced, The Menaced Assassin, The Meaning of Night, The Empty Mask, The Portrait
- place of burial
- tomb of Georgette Berger and René Magritte
- pseudonym
- Emair
- residence
- René Magritte House
- significant person
- Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet
- significant place
- La Fleur en Papier Doré - Het Goudblommeke in Papier
- start of work period
- 1915
- topic's main category
- Category:René Magritte
- unmarried partner
- Sheila Legge
- work location
- Brussels, Carcassonne, Paris, London
- writing language
- French
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