MA-g
The Museum of Avant-garde

Raoul Ubac

Belgium (1910—1985)

Born in Belgium, Ubac moved to Paris in 1930, drawn to the city’s intellectual and artistic ferment. There he encountered Man Ray and the Surrealist circle, which shaped his early photographic experiments. In 1933 he relocated to Germany to study at the Kölner Werkschulen in Cologne. Over the years he worked across sculpture, painting and photography, developing highly experimental methods and pioneering the brûlage technique. Some of his photographic works were published in the Surrealist magazine Minotaure.

André Breton / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)