René Brô
| René Brô | |
|---|---|
| Born |
René Brault November 21, 1930 Charenton, France |
| Died | December 6, 1986 (aged 56) Courgeron Le Pin-au-Haras Lower Normandy, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | painter drawer potter |
René Brô (November 21, 1930 - December 6, 1986) was a French artist.
René Brô was born in Charenton outside Paris. After finishing his schooling in 1944 by the age of fourteen, he began study art at different art schools. Parallelly he supported himself as a commercial artist. In the late 1940s, he was a frequent visitor to Musée de l'Homme and Louvre. He was in particularly attracted to primitive art and to the art of ancient Egypt. Brô's works of this period - pottery, drawings and paintings – are close to the works of Paul Klee or to that which Jean Dubuffet characterized as art brut.
In 1949 René Brô was exhibiting for the first time, at a joint exhibition in Paris. Afterwards he hitchhiked to Italy. During this trip he got to know the two years older Austrian painter Hundertwasser who was on the move too; they were to be lifelong friends. Soon after their return to France in 1950, they jointly grappled with mural painting on the walls of a pavilion of the family Dumage where Hundertwasser stayed in Saint-Mandé outside Paris. Many years later, when this building was to be torn down in 1964, the two murals were saved from the demolition. One of them, La pêche miraculeuse (The miraculous draught), is now in KunstHausWien, Hundertwasser's own museum in Vienna. The other wall, Paradis - Pays des hommes, oiseaux et navires (Paradise - Land of men, of trees, birds and ships) came to a synagogue on Long Island, New York, where it was removed in 2008.
These two friends went separate ways and got married, Brô had children, and both were engaged in their own artistic projects, but they accompanied each other on trips throughout the years, to North Africa, Mexico, India, Nepal, and Polynesia. In 1957 and for some years after they even shared a studio in the old French village of Courgeron in the municipality of Le Pin-au-Haras, Lower Normandy, a location where Brô at least went on visiting until his death.
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