Constantin Brâncuși

- Introduction
- Constantin Brâncuși (Romanian: [konstanˈtin brɨŋˈkuʃʲ] (listen); February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century and a pioneer of modernism, Brâncuși 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. Brâncuși 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.
- Wikidata
- Q153048
- Introduction
- Born 21 February 1876; died 16 March 1957. Brancusi was trained as a sculptor in Romania before moving to Paris in 1904. There he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne. Brancusi quickly became accepted as a member of the Paris avant-garde, as his sculptures departed from the 19th century Western trend toward naturalism and eroticism, and were based instead on non-Western and so-called 'primitive' sculpture. In 1914 Alfred Stieglitz exhibited Brancusi's sculptures at his Photo-Secession gallery in New York, earning Brancusi an international reputation. His sculptures from this period were of two distinct types: elegant, abstract marble or bronze forms, such as the 'bird' sculptures based on a Romanian legend, and rougher carvings made of wood, like his series of 'endless columns'. Brancusi was also known for paying special attention to the bases on which his sculptures were displayed, believing that the pedestal was part of the sculpture itself. He is often referred to as one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century.
- Nationalities
- Romanian, French
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Painter, Photographer, Sculptor
- Names
- Constantin Brancusi, Constantin Brâncuşi, Constantin Brincusi, Constantin Brîncuși, Brancusi, brancussi
- Ulan
- 500016157
Exhibitions
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514: Paris 1920s
Through summer 2021
MoMA
Collection gallery
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500: Constantin Brancusi
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Constantin Brancusi Sculpture
Jul 22, 2018–Jun 15, 2019
MoMA
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Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil
Feb 11–Jun 3, 2018
MoMA
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Dadaglobe Reconstructed
Jun 12–Sep 18, 2016
MoMA
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Constantin Brâncuși has
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Constantin Brâncuși Untitled (Head of a Young Woman) 1910
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Constantin Brâncuși Maiastra 1910-12
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Constantin Brâncuși Mlle Pogany version I, 1913 (after a marble of 1912)
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Constantin Brâncuși Study related to The First Step 1913
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Constantin Brâncuși Untitled (Sleeping Muse) c. 1910
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Constantin Brâncuși View of the Artist's Studio 1918
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Constantin Brâncuși Studio drawing n.d.
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Constantin Brâncuși Studio drawing n.d.
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Constantin Brâncuși Endless Column version I, 1918
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Constantin Brâncuși Untitled (Golden Bird) 1919
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Constantin Brâncuși The Newborn version I, 1920 (close to the marble of 1915)
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Constantin Brâncuși Untitled (La Jeune Fille Enfleurs) 1921
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Constantin Brâncuși Socrates 1922
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Constantin Brâncuși Untitled (self-portrait in the studio) 1920-22
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Constantin Brâncuși Untitled (View of the Studio with Eve, Plato, and Golden Bird) 1922
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Constantin Brâncuși Untitled (View of the Studio with Endless Column, Beginning of the World, Adam and Eve, Bird in Space, and Torso of a Young Girl) 1922
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Constantin Brâncuși Untitled (View of the Studio with Bird in Space) 1923
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Constantin Brâncuși The Cock Paris 1924
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Constantin Brâncuși Reclining Nude c. 1910–25
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Constantin Brâncuși Untitled (Leda) c. 1921
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Constantin Brâncuși Untitled (Self-portrait in the studio) c. 1922
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Constantin Brâncuși Bird in Space 1928
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Constantin Brâncuși Young Bird Paris 1928
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Constantin Brâncuși Untitled (Head of a Sleeping Child and The Newborn II) c. 1923
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Constantin Brâncuși Tales Told of Shem and Shaun: Three Fragments from Work in Progress 1929
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Constantin Brâncuși Fish Paris 1930
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Constantin Brâncuși Blond Negress II Paris 1933 (after a marble of 1928)
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Constantin Brâncuși Untitled (Double Exposure Self Portrait) 1933-34
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Constantin Brâncuși Untitled (Endless Column) 1937
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Constantin Brâncuși Untitled (View of the Studio with Endless Columns III and IV, The Fish, Leda, and Cup II) c. 1933-34
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Constantin Brâncuși Untitled c. 1934
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Constantin Brâncuși Bird in Space c. 1941
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Constantin Brâncuși Untitled (Maternity) 1891-1957
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