Henri Gaudier Brzeska

Henri GaudierBrzeska was a French artist and sculptor who developed a roughhewn, primitive style of direct carving.

Henri Gaudier was born in SaintJeandeBraye near Orlans. In 1910, he moved to London to become an artist, even though he had no formal training. With him came Sophie Brzeska, a Polish writer over twice his age whom he had met at the Bibliothque SainteGenevive in Paris, and with whom he began an intense relationship, annexing her surname although they never married. During this time his conflicting attitudes towards art are exemplified in what he wrote to Dr. Uhlmayr, with whom he had lived the previous year

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