Kurt Seligmann

Kurt Seligmann was born in Switzerland in 1900. He joined the Surrealist movement in 1929 while living in Paris and moved to the United States his wife Arlette in 1939 ahead of other émigrés, many of whom became indebted to him for his relentlessness in arranging for their own escapes to America. His style is definitely idiosyncratic. Besides painitng, he designed sets and costumes for ballets and taught at Briarcliff Junior College and Brooklyn College. He was also interested in magic and the occult and wrote a book entitled, The Mirror of Magic. Seligmann died in 1962.