Life

Constantin Brancusi (February 19, 1876 – March 16,

1957]), was a Romanian sculptor, born in Hobiţa,
Gorj, near Târgu Jiu, where he placed his sculptural
ensemble with The Table of Silence, The Gate of the
Kiss and The Endless Column.

Brancusi studied art at the School of arts and crafts in

Craiova from 1894 to 1898 and at the National school
of fine arts in Bucharest from 1898 to 1901. Wishing
to further his education in Paris, he arrived there in
1904 and enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts in
1905.

As an art student he was influenced by Auguste

Rodin, but his style moved beyond naturalist
representation to stylized elegant forms. Brancusi
was one of the first sculptors to experiment with
abstract art (although never, in his own view, moving
into pure abstraction). His sculptures became
progressively smoother and less figurative, until only
the barest outline of the original subject was left,
venturing even further away from figurative sculpture
than his countryman and contemporary Dimitrie
Paciurea.
The Table of Silence
The Gate of Kiss
The Endless Column
Adam & Eva
King of Kings
The Prayer
Beginning of the World
Fish
Mlle Pogany
Pogany I
Pogany II
Reclining Head
 Life
Constantin Brancusi lived and worked
from 1925 to 1957 in his workshop,
located in the impasse Ronsin, in the
15ème arrondissement of Paris. The
original workshop has disappeared and
has been rebuilt near the Centre
Georges Pompidou.

Located in the Montparnasse Cemetery

are statues carved by Brancusi for a
few fellow artists who committed
suicide, the best-known of which is his
work, The Kiss.

Brancusi died on March 16, 1957 and

was buried in the Montparnasse
Cemetery, Paris, France.
Brancusi Museum - Paris
The Kiss I
Male Torso
Muse
Sleeping Muse I
Sleeping Muse II
Sleeping Muse III
Sleeping Muse IV
Socrates
Study related to “The First Step”
 Legacy
His works are housed in the New York Museum of
Modern Art and in the National Museum of Art of
Romania (in Bucharest), as well as in other major
museums around the world. The Philadelphia
Museum of Art currently has the largest collection of
Brancusi sculptures in the US.

Brancusi's onetime studio in Paris is open to the

public. It is very close to the Pompidou Centre, in
the rue Rambuteau. He donated part of his collection
to the French state on condition that his workshop
be rebuilt as it was on the day he died.

In 2004, a sculpture by Brancusi named Danaide

sold for $18.1 million, the highest that a sculpture
piece had ever sold for at auction. In May 2005, a
piece from the Bird in Space series broke that
record, selling for $27.5 million in a Christie's
auction.
Danaide
Bird in Space
The Bird
The Blonde Negress
The Cock
Golden Bird
Maiastra
The Newborn
The Kiss II, III
 Quotations
“The people who call my work
'abstract' are imbeciles; what they
call 'abstract' is in fact the purest
realism, the reality of which is not
represented by external form but
by the idea behind it, the essence
of the work.”
“Create like a god, command
like a king, work like a slave.”

- Constantin Brancusi
Women’s head
The Prayer
Wisdom of the Earth
Suffering
Bust of a boy
Portret - Darascu
Portret – General Carol Davila
Portret - Vitellius
Torso of a Young Man
Torso of a Young Woman
Sleeping Child
Two Penguins
 Message of
Peace
Physics affirms that the most likely shape, that any given element is
going to take, is that of a sphere.

In many of Brancusi’s works of art, we observe egg-like, sphere-like

lines, shapes, thus the observer understands that his whole life’s work is
that of a quest for perfection. But perfection isn’t that easy to reach.
Perseverance is highly priced. It took him two years of marching to get
to Paris from Romania. He took this journey of enlightening when he
was no more of a child. Shortly after this he became famous.

Peace can only put up routes where a perfect society exists. What
Brancusi is telling us is that we should persevere, till Infinity if
necessary, to reach perfection, thus to reach Peace.