Education
There he attended art school and befriended Gustave Moreau.
painter playwright sculptor writer poet
There he attended art school and befriended Gustave Moreau.
Born in Angoulême, he moved to Paris in 1894. He worked for five decades as a restorer for antique dealer Madame Lelong. He began writing after he met the musician Germaine de SurVille in 1913.
From January 1916 to December 1919, Albert-Birote edited the avant-garde art magazine Signal, Image, Communications, an acronym for Sons Idées Couleurs (Sounds Ideas Colors), which featured writings by Futurists, Surrealism, and Dadaists.
His first volume of poems was Trente et un Poèmes de Poche (1917). His novel Grabinoulor appeared in 1919.