When and where was André Breton born?
André Robert Breton was born on the 19th of February 1896 in Tinchebray, a small town in Normandy. His father Louis-Justin worked as a policeman while his mother Marguerite-Marie-Eugénie had been a seamstress.
André Robert Breton was born on the 19th of February 1896 in Tinchebray, a small town in Normandy. His father Louis-Justin worked as a policeman while his mother Marguerite-Marie-Eugénie had been a seamstress.
The publication of his Surrealist Manifesto arrived in 1924. That document defined surrealism as pure psychic automatism.
Writers and artists published a collective pamphlet called Un Cadavre in 1930 against him because he stated that shooting into a crowd was the simplest surrealist act in the Second manifeste du surréalisme. Georges Limbour saw the violent language as buffoonery while Ribemont-Dessaignes called Breton a hypocrite.
Breton escaped France with help from Varian Fry and Hiram Bingham IV during World War II. He emigrated to New York City where he lived for a few years before returning to Paris in 1946.
André Breton died on the 28th of September 1966 at age 70. He was buried in the Cimetière des Batignolles in Paris.