Alexandre Mercereau
French poet and art critic (1888-1945) · France · On the map · Writers · Lived 1884 to 1945 · aged 60
Alexandre Mercereau was a French symbolist poet and critic associated with Unanimism and the Abbaye de Créteil. He founded the Villa Médicis Libre, which helped impoverished artists and operated as charitable reformatory for delinquent teenagers.
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Abbaye de Créteil, ca.1908. First row: Charles Vildrac, René Arcos, Albert Gleizes, Barzun, Alexandre Mercereau. Second row: Georges Duhamel, Berthold Mahn, d'Otémar
Alexandre Mercereau, circa 1906
Abbaye de Créteil, interior scene, circa 1907
Albert Gleizes, 1913, L'Homme au Hamac (Man in a Hammock), oil on canvas, 130 x 155.5 cm, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New YorkAbout this person
Mercereau's work inspired the revolutionary artistic movement of the early 20th century known as Cubism.
Country
France
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1884 to 1945 · aged 60
