Alexandre Mercereau

Alexandre Mercereau
BornAlexandre Mercereau de la Chaume
(1884-10-22)22 October 1884
Paris, France
Died1945
OccupationPoet
Literary movementSymbolist poets

Alexandre Mercereau (22 October 1888 – 1945) was a French symbolist poet and critic associated with Unanimism and the Abbaye de Créteil. He founded the Villa Médicis Libre, which helped impoverished artists and operated as charitable reformatory for delinquent teenagers.[1] Mercereau's work inspired the revolutionary artistic movement of the early 20th century known as Cubism.

  1. ^ Kathryn Brown, The Art Book Tradition in Twentieth-Century Europe, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013, p. 20, ISBN 1409420655