Victor Brauner (born with Piatra Neamţ, Romania, on June 15th, 1903 - died with Paris on March 12th, 1966). surrealist Painter Hobby-horse ïste then . It formed part, as well as Constantin Brancusi, Eugene Ionesco, Mircea Eliade, Panaït Istrati and Emil Cioran, of the important community of artists and Rumanian intellectuals of Paris.

He studies at the school of the Art schools of Bucharest of 1919 to 1921. In October 1924, it exposes its works, publishes, with Ilarie Voronca, a review " 75 H.P." (only one number) in which he writes proclamation of the " picto-poésie". Neither completely painting, nor completely poetry, the " picto-poésie" juxtapose geometrical forms differentiated according to the color and the key from the brush, where letters traced with the hand or the stencil key set are registered, forming in the futuristic spirit at the same time , Dada ïsme and constructivist, a vocabulary whose significance takes direction only by their inscription on the fabric and underline the dynamic expression of the image.

• “ Salome ”

A first voyage to Paris, in 1925, makes him discover Giorgio de Chirico and the surrealist.

In 1932, installed in Paris, Victor Brauner the group of the surrealist via Yves Tanguy meets. He begins a series of tables around the symbol of the énucléé eye.

• “ Self-portrait ” (1931), “ the Door ” and “ Mediterranean Landscape ” (1932).

In 1934, its first Parisian exposure to the Pierre gallery takes place. André Breton foreword the catalog: " The desire and the fear chair par excellence the play which it carries out with us, in the very worrying visual circle where the appearance fights crépusculairement with the apparence."

• “ Strange K of Mr K ”

Victor Brauner goes back to Bucharest, in 1935, where it will remain there until its return to Paris, in 1938. August 27th, during a " brawls between amis" , projected glass reached and wounds its left eye seriously.

Until the declaration of war of September 1939, the painter crosses one period known as of the " Chimères".

• “ psychological Spaces ”, “ the City”.

After the defeat of June 1940 and the occupation partial of France by the German army, Victor Brauner takes refuge with the villa Air-Beautiful close to Marseilles, where it finds other artists like André Breton, max Ernst, Wifredo Lam, Victor Serge, hoping for obtaining a visa to leave the country and to escape repression. Its waiting being vain, it is then hidden in Provence by Rene Char. The precariousness of its life obliges Victor Brauner to change technique. It paints with wax, material to which it gives an alchemical value, even esoteric.

• “ To become not becoming ” (1943), “ animal Analogy ” (1945), “ Triumph of the doubt ”, “ Motan de Lune ” (1946).

Victor Brauner takes refuge in the area of Perpignan in the family of the surrealist poet Robert Rius. It is in this area with Saint-Feliu of Upstream that it paints his first Conglomeros .

In 1947, it takes part in the surrealist Exposure , the Maeght gallery and presents its being-object the “ Wolf-table ”.
After this exposure, it leaves the surrealist group. Its painting darkens until becoming almost monochromic and the titles of its works joins again with humor Dada.

• “ Orgospoutnique ”, “ Autonoma ”, “ Aeroplapla ”, “ Poisson with casters ”.

Victor Brauner dies in 63 years of a pulmonary Embolie. He is buried with the Cimetière of Montmartre.

Its prolific, very coloured and particularly imaginative work, is very well represented in Paris (National museum of Modern art, Musée of Modern art of the Town of Paris) and in Strasbourg (Musée of Modern art and contemporary).