Georges Braque: Inventor of Cubism

17 September 2021

Landscape at L’Estaque (detail; 1907), Georges Braque. Photo: bpk/Art Institute of Chicago/Art Resource, NY; © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021

The evolution of Georges Braque’s career in many ways mirrors that of modern painting – in the early years of the 20th century, he moved with speed and assurance through the successive avant-garde movements of Fauvism and Cubism (which he helped shape with Picasso), on to papier collé and later to a more personal, Expressionist idiom. This show at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf (25 September–23 January 2022) brings together around 60 works, focusing on Braque’s prodigious output from 1906–14. Find out more from the museum’s website.

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Les Arbres (1908), Georges Braque.

Les Arbres (1908), Georges Braque. Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021

The Portuguese (The Emigrant) (1911–12), Georges Braque.

The Portuguese (The Emigrant) (1911–12), Georges Braque. Kunstmuseum Basel. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021

Bar Stout’s Table (1912–13), Georges Braque.

Bar Stout’s Table (1912–13), Georges Braque. Museum Ludwig, Cologne. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021

Landscape at L’Estaque (1907), Georges Braque.

Landscape at L’Estaque (1907), Georges Braque. Photo: bpk/Art Institute of Chicago/Art Resource, NY; © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021