Artist rene magritte biography 1898
Rene magritte bio!
Artist rene magritte biography 1898
René Magritte | |
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Born | René François Ghislain Nov. 21, Lessines, Belgium |
Died | Aug. 15, (at age 68) Brussels, Belgium |
Nationality | Belgian |
Movement | Surrealism |
Field | Painter |
René Magritte Famous Paintings | |
The Son of Man, | |
The Treachery of Images, –29 | |
The Human Condition, | |
Golconda, | |
The Listening Room, | |
The False Mirror, | |
Elective Affinities, | |
The Mysteries of the Horizon, | |
The Empty Mask, | |
Complete Works |
René François Ghislain Magritte was born on November 21, in Lessines, Belgium.
His dad was a tailor and textile merchant, and his mom was a house wife. Magritte was the oldest out of his siblings, and started drawing lessons in , at the age of Besides this, not much is known about his childhood, for he never talked about it.
In , his mom was found drowned in the River Sambre.
She had committed suicide, and the family was publicly humiliated because of it. She had tried several times before to kill herself, but had fail