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DUBUFFET, Jean; 1901 Le Havre - 1985 Paris French painter. |
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| 1918 | After a two-year course in painting at the
academy in Le Havre, went to Paris to study at the
Academic Julian. Met Suzanne Valadon, Max Jacob, Leger
and Duty. |
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| 1924 | Worked as a
technical draughtsman in Buenos Aires. |
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| 1925-32 | Gave up his
artistic ambitions to work in his father's wine business. |
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| 1933 | Took up painting again. | ||
| 1944 | First solo-exhibition at the Rene Drouin Gallery in Paris. | ||
| 1945 | Started to collect Art Brut, paintings by children and mental patients. | ||
| 1947 | Founded the Societe de L'Art Brut and painted the humorous and ironical series of portraits entitled 'More beautiful than you think'. | ||
| 1955 | Moved to Vence. | ||
| 1956 | From 1956 he constructed large sculptures from small, jigsaw like pieces. These structures, resembling mountain ranges, could be expanded into architectural forms. | ||
| 1959-68 | Participation in documenta 2 in Kassel. | ||
| 1960 | Musical experiments with Asger Jorn. | ||
| 1967 | First architectural environments. | ||
| 1968 | Participation in documenta 4 in Kassel. | ||
| 1973 | Retrospective at Guggenheim Museum in New York, where his surrealist play Coucou Bazar was performed. | ||
| 1976 | Presented his Art
Brut collection to the city of Lausanne. |
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