Réné Magritte was born in 1898 in Belgium. As he was fourteen, his mother commited a suicide : she drowned in the Sambre. When her body was found, her nightdress was covering her face. This picture left its mark on René Magritte. Indeed, he painted it quite often.
In 1917, he went to Brussels to study painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Then, he met Georgette Berger and married her in 1922. His first works were made for advertising, and his first canvas were cubist. We have to notice that Magritte’s work was very influenced by De Chirico’s one. From 1927 to 1930, he met surrealist artists in Paris such as André Breton, Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Paul Eluard. René Magritte, who is seen as a provincial is hardly accepted by the Parisian artists. He went back to Brusels in 1931, as the leader of surrealist painting in Belgium. There, he opened an advertising workshop.
He died in 1967, in Brussels.
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