'La Vie Imagée de Pablo Picasso'.
Paul Braig was a German-French expressionistic painter and graphic artist, who illustrated 'La Vie Imagée de Pablo Picasso' (1952), a "graphic novel" about Pablo Picasso, written by the famous Surrealists writers André Breton and Benjamin Péret. This seems to have been his only contribution to comic history.
Life and career
Paul Braig was born in 1906 in the German city of Munich. In the mid-1920s, he was educated in Germany at the Staatliches Bauhaus in Dessau, where his teachers were Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. He then moved to France, where he studied under the abstract painter Roger Bissière at the Académie Ranson in Paris. During his lifetime, Braig made many expressionistic paintings, and also worked as a poster artist, but he never quite rose to fame or success. He died in Paris in 1972.
La Vie Imagée de Pablo Picasso
Between 28 December 1951 and 8 February 1952, the art magazine Arts serialized a comic strip about Pablo Picasso, written by the writer/poets André Bréton and Benjamin Péret and drawn by Paul Braig. The comic was presented in a text comics format, with text captions underneath the images. The story itself was printed vertically, as was common for French newspaper comics of the 1940s and 1950s.
'Le Porteur', painting by Paul Braig.