Pierre Dubreuil

Dubreuil, Pierre (1872-1944), French photographer. He had independent means, and photographed as a serious amateur from 1891. He began as a pictorialist: elected to the Linked Ring in 1903, he practised oil printing from 1904. Dubreuil's enduring importance is as an early modernist, whose novel compositional strategies—and perceived eccentricities—derived from Cubism, Futurism, and Belgian Surrealism. He exhibited widely and became president of the Association Belge de Photographie in 1932. Sickness and poverty led him to sell his archives to Gevaert in 1943; they were lost when the factory was bombed.

— Hope Kingsley

Bibliography

• Pierre Dubreuil: photographies 1896-1935 (1987)