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Anton PRINNER (1902-1983) - Femme Sphinge, 1938

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Anton Prinner, Construction in Brass

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Anton Prinner par Emile Savitry, Paris, 1946

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Rare transgender art sighting! ⚠️

In both life and art Anton Prinner defied rigid categorization and challenged the binary idea of gender. After studying at the Budapest academy, where Prinner, along with other women, was taught separately from men, the artist moved to Paris in the late 1920s and chose the name Anton. Here, Prinner made pioneering Constructivist sculptures and later created schematic bodies with mysterious, androgynous features. This work also revolves around questions relating to perception and expression and, with its title L'œil ou la cible (The Eye or the Target), it explores our individual way of seeing. "Je ne suis pas moi-même: je suis tout le monde" (I'm not myself: I'm everybody), Prinner wrote in a notebook.

The metamorphosis of Anton Prinner • V&A Blog

Last week I was excited to discover a transgender artist in the collection called Anton Prinner.  Born in Hungary in 1902, he moved to Paris

The artist Pablo Picasso would address Prinner as ‘Monsieur Madame’ and would often introduce him to others as ‘the small man who makes large statues’. Although the former term would largely be considered insulting by today’s standards, Prinner and Picasso were great friends and by all accounts it appears that Prinner was wholly accepted in the circles he moved in. Indeed it seems he was never drawn into having public discussions about his gender identity at any point in his lifetime.

Anton Prinner in his studio, 1947. © Denise Colomb

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Anton Prinner

Double Personnage

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Anton Prinner, was a Hungarian painter, engraver and sculptor. Born in 1902, he was assigned female at birth, but in 1926 begun to present himself as a man, and adopted the name 'Anton', and did so until his death in 1983.

Prinner became a notable member in the avant garde art scene in Paris, becoming friends with Pablo Picasso and André Breton. He took part in the constructivist, figurativist and surrealist artistic movements. Prinner also invented "papyrogravure”, an engraving technique that uses cardboard instead of copper plates in the engraving process.

In later life, he became very secluded, and eventually died penniless and practically unknown.

"People say artists have to try and understand themselves. I’m doing the best I can not to understand myself. Which is a lot harder, a lot more meaningful. I’m a non-existentialist. I’m not myself: I’m everybody."

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Anton Prinner