Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (né Gaudier; 4 October 1891 – 5 June 1915) was a French artist and sculptor who developed a rough-hewn, primitive style of direct carving. == Biography == Henri Gaudier was born in Saint-Jean-de-Braye near Orléans. In 1910, he moved to London to become an artist, even though he had no formal training. With him came Sophie Brzeska, a Polish writer 19 years his senior with whom he had met at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, and with whom he beg…