Raoul Ubac

Raoul Ubac (1910-1985) was a Franco-Belgian artist born in Cologne. After a youth spent between Germany and Belgium, he moved to Paris and studied at the Sorbonne. Closely linked to the Surrealist movement, he associated with figures such as Camille Bryen, Otto Freundlich, and André Breton. In the 1930s, Ubac pioneered experimental photography, using techniques like burning, solarization, and petrification, exhibiting his results in Paris in 1933. Over the years, he expanded his practice to include drawings, engravings, gouaches, paintings, reliefs, tapestries, and stained glass. His work, characterized by a poetic interplay of abstract forms and material textures, gained international recognition. Ubac passed away in France in 1985, leaving a lasting legacy in modern art history.