GAUDIER-BRZESKA, HENRI French sculptor, a leading representative of the Vorticist movement which held that the subject-matter of a work of art need not represent or be like anything in nature; only it must be alive with rhythmic vitality. He was born at St. Jean de Braye, Loire, on Oct. 4, 1891. He was the son of Joseph Gaudier, a joiner. After gaining a scholarship he was educated at Bristol college; and was there provided with funds to study art. He went to Nurem berg and Munich and in 1910 returned to France. He henceforth called himself Gaudier-Brzeska. His first commission in sculpture was the statue of Maria Carmi. At the age of 22 he had estab lished his style in the marbles "The Dancer" and "The Em bracers." He was killed in a charge at Neuville St. Vaast on June 5, 1915. A memorial exhibition of his work was held at the South Kensington museum, London.
See Ezra Pound, His Life and Work.