Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte was born in Lessines, Belgium, on 21 November 1898. At the age of twelve he began taking art classes in Chatelet, where he and his family had just moved to. Painting had always seemed "vaguely magical" to Magritte, who was an average student in school. After quitting high school, he enrolled in 1916 at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels where he followed the classes of drawing, Decorative Painting and Ornamental Composition. Landscapes showing the Sambre river in which his mother had killed herself in 1912, were among his first works.
(Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte)
Born Nov 21 1898, Lessines, Belgium. Died Aug 15 1967, Brussel.
SOVEREIGN STAIN:
ON RENÉ MAGRITTE'S HEGEL'S HOLIDAY
