Lothar Wolleh（1930–1979） · CC BY-SA 3.0
1898–1967
René Magritte
René Magritte · 比利时
20th-century Belgian Surrealist painter (1898–1967).
Born in Lessines, he studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels; in the 1920s he turned to Surrealism, and his representative works *The Treachery of Images* (*This Is Not a Pipe*, 1928–1929) and *The Son of Man* (1964) use the displacement of everyday objects to question the relationship between image and reality; he lived in Paris in 1927–1930, returned to Belgium in 1930, and died in Brussels in 1967.
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Places in their life
Birthplace Lessines; place of activity and burial Brussels.
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Cultural significance
The emblematic figure of Belgian Surrealism; his images of the "bowler-hatted man" and the "green apple covering a face" have entered popular visual culture.