André Brasilier was born in Saumur, France in 1929, into a family of painters. Saumur is on the edge of the countryside, which was to become a lifelong source of inspiration – alongside that of the city, these two seemingly opposite sites of enquiry seamlessly interwoven in his art.
Brasilier studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1952, he received the Florence Blumenthal Award and in 1953 the Prix de Rome, which led him to stay in Italy from 1954 to 1957, before returning to Paris where he still lives and works.
Brasilier had his first retrospective at Château de Chenonceau in 1980, with further retrospectives at the Musée Picasso-Château Grimaldi in Antibes in 1988; the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg in 2005 and the Museum Haus Ludwig für Kunstausstellungen in Saarlois, Germany, in 2007
