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Raoul Ubac
Belgian
1910–1985
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Raoul Ubac. Autoportrait solarisé (Solarized self-portrait). 1940. Gelatin silver print, 11 11/16 x 9 1/4" (29.7 x 23.9 cm). © 2014/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Reproduced in Christina Bouqueret. Raoul Ubac: Photographie (Raoul Ubac: Photography). Paris: Editions Léo Scheer, 2000
Meeting Points
Artist Chronology
| August 31, 1910 |
Born
At location: Raoul Ubac
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Cologne |
| January–July 1929 |
Studies at the Sorbonne
At location: Raoul Ubac
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Paris |
| 1930 |
Raoul Ubac meets Man Ray, André Breton, and other Surrealists
Ubac makes his first photographs in this year.
At location: Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), Raoul Ubac
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Paris |
| 1932 |
Studies at the School of Applied Arts in Cologne, where he learns modern photographic techniques and makes his first photograms
At location: Raoul Ubac
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Cologne |
| 1933–early 1940 |
Lives in Paris
Ubac leaves Paris in 1940 to escape the war.
At location: Raoul Ubac
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Paris |
| Late 1934 |
Solo exhibition Collages Photographiques at Galerie Louis Cattiaux
Participant: Raoul Ubac
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Paris |
| 1935 |
Raoul Ubac, Franz Roh, and Florence Henri publish photographs in Formes Neues
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Paris |
| 1935 |
Solo exhibition at Galerie Gravitations
Participant: Raoul Ubac
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Paris |
| October 13–27, 1935 |
Participates in a Surrealist exhibition at La Louviere using the pseudonym Raoul Michelet
Participant: Raoul Ubac
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Paris |
| 1937 |
Begins a series of solarizations
At location: Raoul Ubac
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Paris |
| 1937–39 |
Publishes photographs in the Surrealist journals Minotaure and Dictionnaire abrégé de Surréalisme
Contributor: Raoul Ubac
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Paris |
| January 17–February 24, 1938 |
Exposition internationale du Surréalisme at Galerie des Beaux-Arts
Participant: Raoul Ubac
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Paris |
| 1939–40 |
Experiments with dipping a negative in boiling water and printing from the deformed negative
At location: Raoul Ubac
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Paris |
| January 17–February 1940 |
Exposición internacional del Surrealismo: Aparición de la Gran Esfinge Nocturna at the Galería de Arte Mexicano
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Mexico City |
| 1940–46 |
Lives in Brussels
At location: Raoul Ubac
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Brussels |
| May 3–14, 1941 |
Exhibits 32 photographs and two chisel prints at Galerie Dietrich
Participant: Raoul Ubac
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Brussels |
| 1942–44 |
Works as a still photographer on the set of Henri Storck's La Symphonie paysanne
At location: Raoul Ubac
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Paris |
| November 1943 |
Solo exhibition of photographs and paintings at the Librairie-galerie Francis Dasté
Participant: Raoul Ubac
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Paris |
| December 15, 1945–January 15, 1946 |
Surréalisme at Galerie des éditions le Boétie
Participant: Raoul Ubac
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Brussels |
| 1946 |
Moves to Montparnasse and increasingly prefers sculpture over other mediums
At location: Raoul Ubac
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Paris |
| March 24, 1985 |
Dies
At location: Raoul Ubac
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Oise |
