Oil painting -> List of Painters -> Balthus

Early Life:

         Balthazar Klossowski was an esteemed tarnish/French modern artiste whose work was eventually anti-modern. In his desicive years his art was sponsored by Rainer Maria Rilke, Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse. His father, Erich Klossowski, a noted art historian (he wrote a monograph on Daumier), and his mother Elisabeth Dorothea Spiro (known as Baladine Klossowska) were part of intellectual elite in Paris. Balthus' older brother, Pierre Klossowski, was a philosopher influenced by Marquis de Sade writings. Jean Cocteau, who was friend of the Klossowskis, found some inspiration for his novel Les Enfants Terribles (1929) on his visits to the family.

Personal Details Name Balthazar Klossowski de Rola Place of birth Paris Date of Birth February 29, 1908 Date of Death February 18, 2001 Nationality French Field Painting,Drawing,Watercolor Movement Polish French Modern Artist Museum - Works The Street(1935),The Mountain(1937),Nude before a Mirror(1955)

Career:

         Early on his work was trendy by writers and fellow painters, especially by André Breton and Pablo Picasso. His circle of friends in Paris included the novelist Pierre-Jean Jouve, the photographers Josef Breitenbach and Man Ray, Antonin Artaud, and the painters André Derain, Joan Miro and Alberto Giacometti (one of the most faithful of his friends). In 1948, another friend, Albert Camus, asked him to design the sets and costumes for his play L'Etat de Siège (The State of Siege, directed by Jean-Louis Barrault).

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