Rene Magritte was a surrealist painter from Belgium. He was born on November 21, 1898 in Lessines and died on August 15, 1967 of pancreatic cancer in Brussels. Little is known about his childhood, as he rarely spoke of it. He was the eldest of three sons to Léopold and Régina Magritte. The family was fairly well-to-do and his father owned a manufacturing business that caused the family to move out of the country quite often. His mother committed suicide by drowning herself in the River Samble when he was fourteen, and soon after he began drawing and painting. He initially took and impressionistic style, but soon moved to surrealism with oil paints when studying at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts where is studied under Constant Montald. He met Georgette Berger as boy, and married her some years later after a military tour. He spent the rest of his life with her. In 1921, he produced his first popular work The Treachery of Images. However, after some bad reviews, they moved to Paris where he fell in with some of surrealism's founding fathers. During this time, he produced The Lovers and On the Threshold of Liberty. Unfortunately, he found little financial success in Paris and they moved back the Brussels in 1930 where he found new popularity and success.
On the Threshold of Liberty
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