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Albert Gleizes (
French: [glɛz]; 8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953) was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of
Cubism and an influence on the
School of Paris. Albert Gleizes and
Jean Metzinger wrote the first major treatise on Cubism,
Du "Cubisme", 1912. Gleizes was a founding member of the
Section d'Or group of artists. He was also a member of
Der Sturm, and his many theoretical writings were originally most appreciated in Germany, where especially at the
Bauhaus
his ideas were given thoughtful consideration. Gleizes spent four
crucial years in New York, and played an important role in making
America aware of
modern art. He was a member of the
Society of Independent Artists, founder of the Ernest-Renan Association, and both a founder and participant in the
Abbaye de Créteil.
[1] Gleizes exhibited regularly at
Léonce Rosenberg’s
Galerie de l’Effort Moderne in Paris; he was also a founder, organizer and director of
Abstraction-Création. From the mid-1920s to the late 1930s much of his energy went into writing, e.g.,
La Peinture et ses lois (Paris, 1923),
Vers une conscience plastique: La Forme et l’histoire (Paris, 1932) and
Homocentrisme (Sablons, 1937).
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