Robert Giron
1897-1967

Robert Giron was born in Ixelles in 1897. He attended l’Académie de Bruxelles from 1919 until 1920, where his fellow schoolmates included Delvaux, Magritte, Flouquet, Cocq, and Singer. Giron also attended l’Académie Libre Labor. He was a friend of Jean Milo. In 1925 Giro exhibited with his former schoolmate, the Belgian Surrealist Paul Delvaux. In 1932 Giron became the director of exhibitions of painters at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles.

Giron is known for his expressionistic compositions of cafés, cabarets, and theatres.

Typical of the Belgian modernists, he used cubist elements combined with a technique that exaggerates the features of his subjects.

In 1967, Giron died abruptly in Sao Paul, Brasil. He was in Brasil because he was participating in the ninth annual Biennale de Sao Paulo. The following year after his death he was honored by Le Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles with an exhibition of modern artist and contemporaries that he had appreciated and encouraged.

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

Giron died in 1967 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.