Raoul ubac biography for kids

 Raoul Ubac, a non-figurative French painter of Belgian origin, belonging to the new School of Paris, was born in Malmedy (Wallonia) the 31st August 1910.  His mother’s family ran a tannery and his father was a magistrate.  He studied in Belgium, travelling a part of Europe on foot and made his first stay in Paris in 1928.  After enrolling at the Sorbonne to follow literary studies, he changed his career path and decided to attend the Art Academy of Montparnasse, where he established contact with the Surrealists. 

Ubac was passionate about surrealist photography.

He enrolled in the School of applied arts in Cologne, where he worked on drawing and photography.  He distanced himself from painting.  Whilst travelling in Dalmatia in 1932, he assembled stones which he then drew and photographed.  In collaboration with Camille Bryen, Raoul Ubac published a collection of poems and photographs in 1934, under the name of Raoul Michelet.  S