February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian-born sculptor who
made his career in France. As a child he displayed an aptitude for
carving wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest,
then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His
abstract style emphasizes clean geometrical lines that balance forms
inherent in his materials with the symbolic allusions of
representational art. Famous Brâncuşi works include the Sleeping Muse
(1908), The Kiss (1908), Prometheus (1911), Mademoiselle Pogany
(1913), The Newborn (1915), Bird in Space (1919) and The Column of the
Infinite (Coloana infinitului), popularly known as The Endless Column
(1938). Considered the pioneer of modernism Brâncuşi is called the
Patriarch of Modern Sculpture.
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