Gleizes, Albert (1881–1953)

French cubist painter and theorist. He is chiefly remembered for his pioneering book De Cubisme 1912, written with Jean Metzinger (1883–1956). Influenced initially by Picasso and Braque and later by Robert Delaunay, Gleizes painted in an exuberant manner, filling the entire canvas with tilting, interpenetrating planes, as in Harvest Threshing 1912 (Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York).

He helped found the Section d'Or in Paris 1912–14, an exhibition society for disseminating the work of cubist painters, and was greatly inspired by his visits to the USA in 1915 and 1917–18, producing On Brooklyn Bridge 1917 (Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York).