HENRI LAURENS
Henri Laurens
1885 Paris – 1954 Paris
Henri Laurens was an influential figure among the important artists of the first half of the 20th century. Along with Pablo Picasso and George Braque, Laurens is regarded as a co-founder of Cubism, which above all had an immense influence on sculpture in the 1920s and 1930s. After an apprenticeship as a stone mason from 1899 until 1905 he worked on ornamental sculptures in the construction industry.