Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire, born Wilhelm Kostrowicki, was born in Rome on 26 August 1880, the son of a Polish aristocrat and a father who remained unknown. He grew up between Italy, the Côte d'Azur and Paris, was a tutor in Germany in 1901 and 1902, then became in Paris the friend of Picasso and the art critic who defended Cubism, whose name he is said to have coined. A soldier during the war, he was wounded in the temple by a shell fragment on 17 March 1916 and died on 9 November 1918.

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