French actor and director (born 1896)

Antonin Artaud

Antoine Maria Joseph Paul Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud, was a French artist who worked across a variety of media. He is best known for his writings, as well as his work in the theatre and cinema. Widely recognized as a major figure of the European avant-garde, he had a particularly strong influence on twentieth-century theatre through his conceptualization of the Theatre of Cruelty. Known for his raw, surreal and transgressive work, his texts explored themes from the cosmologies of ancient cultures, philosophy, the occult, mysticism and indigenous Mexican and Balinese practices.

Born

1896

September 4

Died

1948

Era

1890s

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Antonin, in brief

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1896 Born
1948 Died

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626 Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne over the Tang dynasty of China.
929 Battle of Lenzen: Slavic forces (the Redarii and the Obotrites) are defeated by a Saxon army near the fortified stronghold of Lenzen in Brandenburg.
1260 The Sienese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of Manfred, King of Sicily, defeat the Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti.

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The world in 1948

When Antonin departed

april 1 Cold War: Communist forces respond to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark by attempting to force the western powers to withdraw from Berlin.
april 1 Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
april 13 In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
april 16 The Organization of European Economic Co-operation is formed.

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1896

A. J. Cronin 1896–1981 Scottish physician and author (born 1896) Antonino Votto 1896–1985 Italian conductor (died 1985) Herbert Backe 1896–1947 German agronomist and politician (born 1896) Josephine Tey 1896–1952 Scottish author and playwright (born 1896) Karl Allmenröder 1896–1917 German soldier and pilot (born 1896) Lev Vygotsky 1896–1934 Belarusian-Russian psychologist and theorist (born 1896) Reginald Baker 1896–1953 Australian rugby player (born 1884) Roman Jakobson 1896–1982 Russian–American linguist and theorist (born 1896) Salim Ali 1896– Indian ornithologist and author (died 1987)

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