Benjamin Péret
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Benjamin Péret was a French poet, Parisian Dadaist, and founder and central member of the French Surrealist movement with his avid use of Surrealist automatism.
Benjamin Péret
Wolfgang Paalen
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Wolfgang Robert Paalen was an Austrian-Mexican painter, sculptor, and art philosopher. A member of the Abstraction-Création group from 1934 to 1935, he joined the influential Surrealist movement in 19
Benjamin Péret
…the Spanish artist Remedios Varo. In Mexico City he became involved with the European intellectual community around the Austrian painter and surrealist Wolfgang Paalen living there in exile. He was particularly inspired by Paalen's huge collection and knowledge about the "Totem Art" of the Northwest Coast of British…
Paalen, c. 1940
Entrance to Paalen's birthplace, Köstlergasse 1, Vienna
Castle of the Paalen-family in Sagan from 1913 to 1934
Paalen in his studio apartment, rue Pernety, Paris, about 1933