Robert Giron
1897-1967

Robert Giron was born in Brussels in 1897. He attended the
l’Académie de Bruxelles and l’Académie Libre Labor.

Giron exhibited with Belgian Surrealist Paul Delvaux in 1925 and after 1932 became the director of exhibitions of painters at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.

Giron is known for both his expressionistic compositions of cafés and theatres. Typical of the Belgian modernists he used cubist elements combined with the technique that exaggerates the features of his subjects.

There is an award named after Robert Giron that is presented to outstanding artist that exhibit at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles.

Giron died in 1967 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.