Constantin Brancusi
Constantin Brancusi (born February 19, 1876 in Hobita, Romania, † 16 March 1957 in Paris) was a Romanian-French sculptor of the modern photographer and his works in the environment of his studio. Brancusi, who lived after attending the Art Academy in Bucharest in 1904 and worked in Paris, is one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th Century, the next Auguste Rodin, the artist knew of and admired the sculpture of a lasting influence, as he broke with the realistic rendering of objects by reduction. After a traditional academic work formed the start of 1907 released his individual style that was influenced by African and Romanian folk art.
Brancusi’s sculptures in bronze, marble, wood and plaster often show abstract ovoid heads and flying birds, they avant-garde in the visual arts are attributed. He has made only a few subjects that he in the tendency of Cubism, with whom he came into contact in 1910, varied. With the three-part war memorial in Targu Jiu in 1938 he reached the fusion of architecture and sculpture.
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