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Albert Gleizes Biography 1881 Born, Paris, December 8. Raised in Courbevoie. Secondary edication at Collège Chaptal. 1900 Worked in his father's fabric design atelier. 1902 First exhibits at Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris. 1903 First exhibits at the Salon d'Automne. Military service until 1905. 1905 Founder of the Association Ernest Renan. 1906-1908 Founded and participated in the Abbaye de Créteil. 1909-1910 Paris, met through Mercereau, Le Fauconnier, Metzinger, Delaunay, and others. 1911 Exhibited in "room 41", Salon des Indépendants. Scandal about Cubism. Commenced extensive writing. Friendly with Duchamp-Villon family; formation of the Artists of Passy group. 1912 Published Du Cubisme with Metzinger. Assists in the formation of the Section d'Or. 1914 Called into Army. First completely abstract works. 1915 Demobilized, married Juliette Roche and visits New York. 1916 Barcelona, Spring through Autumn, 1916. 1917 Returns to New York via Cuba. Visits Bermuda. 1918 Summer in Pelham, New York; beginning of religious orientation. 1919 Returns to France, Spring. 1921 First painting students; early formulation of theories of picture construction. 1922-1926 Gradual withdrawal from Paris-centered art world; increased interest in social and intellectual problems. 1927 Established Moly-Sabata, a second utopian community of artists-craftsmen in Sablons. 1927-1928 Pochoirs, often recapitulating earlier paintings, are begun in an effort to make reasonably priced art available to wide public. 1930 Strongest Romanesque influences appear in his art and in the concurrent writing of La forme et L'Historie, published in 1932. Participates in Abstraction-Création movement. 1934-1935 Reintroduction of vigorous brush work. 1937 Executes murals for the Paris Exposition des Arts. 1939 Permanently moves to St. Remy-de-Provence. 1941 Rejoins Roman Catholic church. 1947 Major retrospective exhibition at Lyon, Chapelle du Lycée Ampère. 1949-1950 Illustrated the Pensées of Pascal. 1951 Awarded Grand Prix at the first French Biennial, Menton. 1952 The Eucharist is executed in fresco for the Chapel "Les Fontaines" at Chantilly. 1953 Died, Avignon, June 23. Excerpted from Albert Gleizes, A Retrospective Exhibition by Daniel Robbins, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1964. |