Albert Gleizes (French 1881-1953)
The painter and art author Albert Gleizes, who became known as the main representative of Cubism, was born in Paris in 1881. As a co-founder of the "Salon d'Automne" and member of the "Salon des Indépendants" Albert Gleizes had close contact to the artistic avant-garde. He joined the Cubist circle around Robert Delaunay in 1910. Soon he discovered his own pictorial language, however, which dismantles the objects and re-organises them rhythmically - like in Futurism. The following year he wrote the first of many articles. In collaboration with Metzinger, Gleizes wrote Du Cubisme, published in 1912.
