Pierre Albert-Birot
France (1876—1967)Trained in applied arts and sculpture, Pierre Albert‑Birot worked as a restorer and decorator, notably for Madame Lelong in Paris. His career as a poet and dramatist began in 1913, and three years later he founded and edited the art magazine SIC (Sons, Idées, Couleurs). In 1917 he published his first collection of poems and staged Apollinaire’s Les mamelles de Tirésias. In the following years he wrote several plays, and in 1929 founded the theatre Le Plateau, where he directed his Pièces‑Études.
