Auberjonois, René Victor

Related Category: European Art, 1600 to the Present: Biographies

(rənā´ vēktôr´ ōbāzhônwä´), 1872–1957, Swiss artist. Auberjonois settled in Lausanne in 1914 and created costumes for Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat (1917). His paintings, characterized by muted colors and geometric forms, reveal an independent spirit influenced by cubism.