André Breton (1896–1966)
Author of Nadja
About the Author
Andre Breton was born in Normandy, France on 19, 1896 and died on September 28, 1966. Breton was a poet, novelist, philosophical essayist, and art critic. He is considered to be the father of surrealism. From World War I to the 1940s, Breton was at the forefront of the numerous avant-garde show more activities that centered in Paris. Breton's influence on the art and literature of the twentieth century has been enormous. Picasso, Derain, Magritte, Giacometti, Cocteau, Eluard, and Gracq are among the many whose work was affected by his thinking. From 1927 to 1933, Breton was a member of the Communist party, but thereafter he opposed communism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism". He also wrote Nadja in 1928. Breton died in 1966 at 70 and was buried in the Cimetière des Batignolles in Paris. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: André Breton par Man Ray en 1930
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Works by André Breton
The Automatic Message, the Magnetic Fields, the Immaculate Conception (Atlas Anti-Classics) (1789) 87 copies
Clair de terre 23 copies
Andre Breton, la beaute convulsive: Musee national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou (French Edition) (1991) 8 copies
Primo manifesto del surrealismo 4 copies
Le surréalisme en 1947. Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme Présentée par André Breton et Marcel Duchamp. (1947) 3 copies
Point du jour 3 copies
La unión libre 3 copies
Segundo manifiesto 3 copies
Le cadavre exquis, son exaltation 3 copies
El aire del agua 2 copies
Toyen 2 copies
Entretiens par Andre Breton 1 copy
Clair de terre 1 copy
等角投像 1 copy
シュルレアリスムと抒情による蜂起―アンドレ・ブルトン没後50年記念イベント全記録 — Author — 1 copy
太陽王アンドレ・ブルトン — Author — 1 copy
性に関する探究 1 copy
What is surrealism? 1 copy
Surrealism, Dadaism, Musique Concrète: Three Manifestos: With a Special Appendix by Marsden Hartley (2023) 1 copy
Antología (1916-1966) 1 copy
Poèmes 1 copy
Les pas perdus 1 copy
Légitime défense 1 copy
Le surrealisme 1 copy
Le Surrealisme et la Peinture Suivi de Genese et Perspective Artistiques du Surrealisme et de Fragments Inedits. (1945) 1 copy
Man Ray 1 copy
Hundred Headless Woman (the) 1 copy
nadja 1 copy
Svart Musik och Surrealism 1 copy
Los pasos perdidos 1 copy
PREMIER MANIFESTE, SECOND MANIFESTE, PROLEGOMENES A UN TROISIEME MANIFESTE DU SURREALISME OU NON, POSITION POLITIQUE DU… (1962) 1 copy
Le voleur 1 copy
Joan Miró. Constellations: Introduction et vingt-deux proses parallèles par André Breton (1959) 1 copy
Le Surréalisme, même 2 1 copy
Mont de Piété 1 copy
Associated Works
The Council of Love: A Celestial Tragedy in Five Acts (1895) — Introduction, some editions — 52 copies
Kunst aus Haiti : Ausstellung d. Berliner Festspiele GmbH, 24. Juni - 12. August ; [neubearb. u. erw.] — Contributor — 1 copy
ダダ・シュルレアリスム新訳詩集 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Breton, André
- Legal name
- Breton, André
- Other names
- Dobrant, René (Pseudonyme)
- Birthdate
- 1896-02-19
- Date of death
- 1966-09-28
- Burial location
- Cimetière des Batignolles, Paris, France
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- France
- Country (for map)
- France
- Birthplace
- Tinchebray, Orne, Normandy, France
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Places of residence
- Paris, France
New York, New York, USA
Canada - Education
- Hôpital du Val-de-Grâce (Auditeur, Médecine Auxilliaire, 1917 | 1921)
Lycée Chaptal, Paris - Occupations
- poet
writer
Surrealist
essayist
art critic
journal editor - Relationships
- Kahn, Simone (ex-wife)
Claro, Elisa (wife)
Lamba, Jacqueline (ex-wife)
Tzara, Tristan (colleague)
Prassinos, Gisèle (protege)
Elleouet, Aube (daughter) (show all 7)
Vaché, Jacques (author) - Organizations
- Mouvement surréaliste (Fondateur, 19 19)
Littérature, Revue littéraire (Co-fondateur, 19 19)
Maison de couture Jacques Doucet (Conseiller, 19 21)
Contre-attaque, Revue littéraire (Co-fondateur, 19 35 | 19 36)
Armée française, WW1 (Artilleur, puis personnel de santé, 19 15 | 19 19)
Parti communiste français (1913 | 1935) (show all 7)
La Révolution surréaliste (1924) - Short biography
- André Breton was born in Tinchebray, Normandy, France. His parents were Marguerite-Marie-Eugénie and Louis-Justin Breton, a policeman. Breton attended medical school, where he developed a particular interest in mental illness. His education was interrupted when he was drafted into the French army in World War I; he served as a nurse in the medical corps. In 1919, with Louis Aragon and Philippe Soupault, he founded the review Littérature. He became one of the original members of the Dada group. He published his first Surrealist Manifesto in 1924, and was editor of the journal La Révolution surréaliste from that year on. Influenced by his reading of Sigmund Freud and by Symbolist poetry, Breton is credited with pioneering automatism, the spontaneous act of writing, drawing, or painting as a means to elucidate unconscious thought. The Surrealist movement eventually became involved in the political ferment of the 1930s. During this time, Breton and several colleagues joined the Communist Party. His second Surrealist manifesto, published in 1930, was highly controversial among his fellow artists and writers. Breton broke with the Communist Party in 1935, but remained committed to Marxist ideals. In 1938, he accepted a commission from the French government to travel to Mexico. This provided him with the opportunity to meet Leon Trotsky, Diego Rivera, and Frida Kahlo. Together with Trotsky, Breton wrote the Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art. He served again in the medical corps of the French Army at the start of World War II. His writings were banned by the Vichy government and Breton escaped from France in 1941 with the help of the Emergency Rescue Committee volunteers led by Varian Fry. After a detour in the Caribbean, Breton emigrated to the USA and lived in New York City for a few years. In 1942, he organized a groundbreaking Surrealist exhibition at Yale University. He traveled to the Gaspé Peninsula in Québec, Canada, where he wrote Arcane 17 (1944), one of the key works of Surrealism, which expressed his fears of war. In 1946, after the end of WWII, Breton returned to France, where he produced another Surrealist exhibition the following year. He was a prolific author who published some 60 volumes of poetry, literary criticism, and anthologies.
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