Albert Gleizes (French: [glɛz]; 8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953) was a major 20th-century French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris. Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger wrote the first major treatise upon Cubism, Du “Cubisme”, 1912. Gleizes was a founding supporter of the Section d’Or help of artists. He was after that a zealot of Der Sturm, and his many hypothetical writings were originally most appreciated in Germany, where especially at the Bauhaus his ideas were definite thoughtful consideration. Gleizes spent four crucial years in New York, and played an important role in making America au fait of broadminded art. He was a aficionado of the Society of Independent Artists, founder of the Ernest-Renan Association, and both a founder and participant in the Abbaye de Créteil. Gleizes exhibited regularly at Léonce Rosenberg’s Galerie de l’Effort Moderne in Paris; he was moreover a founder, organizer and director of Abstraction-Création. From the mid-1920s to the late 1930s much of his energy went into writing, e.g., La Peinture et ses lois (Paris, 1923), Vers une conscience plastique: La Forme et l’histoire (Paris, 1932) and Homocentrisme (Sablons, 1937).
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