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The Museum of Avant-garde

Guillaume Apollinaire

France (1880—1918)

Apollinaire is considered one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century. Despite his short life (he died of Spanish flu at the age of 38), his influence spans across artistic movements, from Futurism, Cubism, Dada and Surrealism. A cosmopolitan figure, well travelled all over Europe since his early years, Apollinaire settled in Paris as a leading member of the avant-garde circle, including Picasso, Braque, Miró, Rousseau and Duchamp. Although never fully associated with a single movement, he represented an inspiration for many other artistic groups and his name became synonymous of challenging conventions and antagonism towards bourgeois society and status quo. The terms Cubism and Surrealism are also attributed to him.

Guillaume Apollinaire / Sándor Bortnyik / Jean Cocteau / Philippe Soupault / Béla Uitz / Jean Arp / Paul Éluard / Lajos Kassák / El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky) / László Moholy-Nagy / Francis Picabia / Kurt Schwitters

MA 2

Magazine / Silkscreen print / 29.9 x 30.7 cm / Budapest / Vienne, 1916-1925

Guillaume Apollinaire / Jean Arp / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara

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La bicyclette archevêque / Magazine / Letterpress / 38 x 55.8 cm / Paris, 1919 / © Francis Picabia c/o Sabam, 2020

Guillaume Apollinaire / Francis Picabia

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Roulette / Magazine / Letterpress / 27 x 37.2 cm / Barcelona, 1917 / © Francis Picabia c/o Sabam, 2020

Guillaume Apollinaire / Jean Cocteau / Gino Severini / Paul Éluard / Tristan Tzara

Action

Cahiers de philosophie et d’art / Magazine / Letterpress / 19.5 x 24.5 cm / Paris, 1920-1922

Guillaume Apollinaire / Robert Delaunay / Pierre Albert-Birot

Surréalisme 1

Manifeste du surréalisme / Magazine / 17 x 24.5 cm / Paris, 1924

Guillaume Apollinaire / Marcel Janco / Enrico Prampolini / Jean Arp / Wassily Kandinsky / Tristan Tzara

Dada 2

Recueil littéraire et artistique / Magazine / Letterpress / 19.5 x 22.9 cm / Zürich, 1917

Guillaume Apollinaire / Marcel Janco / Enrico Prampolini / Hans Richter / Philippe Soupault / Pierre Albert-Birot / Vicente Huidobro / Jean Arp / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara

Dada 3

Magazine / Letterpress / 23.8 x 31.4 cm / Zürich, 1918

Guillaume Apollinaire / Hugo Ball / Francesco Cangiullo / Richard Hülsenbeck / Marcel Janco / Amedeo Modigliani / Jean Arp / Wassily Kandinsky / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / Pablo Picasso / Tristan Tzara

Cabaret Voltaire

Recueil littéraire et artistique / Magazine / Letterpress / 20.9 x 29.6 cm / Zürich, 1916

Guillaume Apollinaire / Lajos Kassák / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Der Mistral

Zeitschrift für Literatur und Kunst / Journal / 19.8 x 29.4 cm / Zürich, 1915