Georges Braque
Georges Braque (May 13, 1882 - August 31, 1963) was a French painter and sculptor, and with Pablo Picasso one of the inventors of cubism.
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Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil-sur-Seine, France. He grew up in Le Havre and studied in the evenings at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from about 1897 to 1899.
Braque was injured in the First World War, after which he moved away from the harsher abstraction of cubism.