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Victor Brauner was a Romanian-born artist and pivotal figure in the Surrealist movement. Growing up in a Jewish family in Romania, he studied chemistry and engineering before being drawn to the arts and relocating to Paris in 1930. There he joined the circle of André Breton and immersed himself in Surrealism. Brauner brought an innovative approach to painting by incorporating unorthodox materials like wax, plaster, wood, and fabric into his canvases. His early Surrealist works featured unsettling biomorphic forms inspired by microscopic imagery, combining aspects of the corporeal and mechanical. He pioneered the technique of décalcomanie, making imprints from gouache-painted objects onto canvas for fantastical compositions. During WWII, Brauner miraculously survived being shot in the face by a Nazi soldier, losing an eye but continuing to paint. His post-trauma imagery grew darker, obsessively depicting blindfolded figures and exploring psychic injury through haunting, mutated figures lacking stable forms. Seminal works like "Prelude to a Civilization" pres
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Artur Brauner
German film producer (1918–2019)
Artur "Atze" Brauner (born Abraham Brauner; 1 August 1918 – 7 July 2019) was a German film producer and entrepreneur of Polish origin. He produced more than 300 films from 1946.
Life and career
He was born the oldest son of a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland. His father was a timber wholesaler. Brauner attended a general education liceum in Łódź, where he took the matura final exam, and then studied at a local polytechnic technical school until the German attack on Poland in September 1939.[3] With his parents and four siblings, he fled to the Soviet Union and survived the Holocaust.[4] Following the war, he and his brother, Wolf Brauner emigrated to Berlin;[5] his parents and three of his siblings emigrated to Israel.[3] Twelve of his relatives were killed at Babi Yar,[6] among forty-nine who died at the hands of the Nazis.[7]
Brauner married Theresa Albert, called Maria, in 1947. They had four children.[3]
As a young man, he saw Fritz Lang's fi
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Artur Brauner
Artur "Atze" Brauner (born Abraham Brauner; 1 August 1918 – 7 July 2019) was a Polish-born German movie producer and entrepreneur. He created over 300 movies from 1946 through 2019. He was Jewish and many of his relatives were killed by Nazis in the 1940s.[1]
Brauner produced Sag' die Wahrheit, one of the first movies produced in Germany after World War II. He also produced Morituri, but received negative reviews and failed at the box office. He began to work with German Hollywood-based producers such as Robert Siodmak and later Fritz Lang who started a revival of Dr. Mabuse.[2]
Some of his movies dealt with the Holocaust such as Die Weiße Rose, The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (Der 20. Juli) and Man and Beast (Mensch und Bestie).
Brauner died on 7 July 2019 in Berlin at the age of 100.[3]
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