Raoul Ubac
Classical Surrealism PhotographyPaintingSculptureEngraving
About
Raoul Ubac (1910-1985) was a Belgian-born artist renowned for his work in photography, painting, sculpture, and engraving, closely associated with the Surrealist movement in the 1930s. Born in Malmédy, Belgium, he moved to Paris in 1930 to study literature at the Sorbonne but soon shifted to art, attending the Art Academy of Montparnasse where he encountered Surrealists like Man Ray and André Breton. He experimented with techniques such as photomontage, solarization, overprinting, and invented the 'burning process' with David Hare. His photographs appeared in the Surrealist journal Minotaure, and he collaborated on poetic works and learned engraving at Atelier 17.
Surrealism transitioning to lyrical abstraction and non-representational art
Selected Exhibitions
- Galerie Maeght (1951 onwards)
- CoBrA exhibition at Liège (1951)
- Retrospectives in Paris, Charleroi, Brussels (1968)