Henri Gaudier-Brzeska [SEP] occupation
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (4 October 1891 – 5 June 1915) was a French artist and sculptor who developed a rough-hewn, primitive style of direct carving.
Biography.
Henri Gaudier was born in Saint-Jean-de-Braye near Orléans. In 1910, he moved to London to become an artist, even though he had no formal training. With him came Sophie Brzeska, a Polish writer over twice his age whom he had met at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in
artistic figures before the First World War. These included C.R.W. Nevinson, Jacob Epstein, J.C. Squire, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Rupert Brooke and others. From Gaudier-Brzeska, Kibblewhite acquired the small bronze "Fish" sculpture, now in the Tate Gallery. Gaudier-Brzeska asked Kibblewhite to keep the item in her handbag. He made a number of similar small items for friends including knuckledusters for T.E. Hulme. Kibblewhite was at Charing Cross Station when his friends said goodbye to Gaudier-Brzeska before he left for France where