马格里特出生于莱西纳，在省埃诺，比利时，1898年他是利奥波德马格利特，一的长子裁缝和纺织商人，[1]里贾纳（娘家姓 Bertinchamps），谁是女帽，她得到了前已婚。鲜为人知的是马格利特的早期生活。他于1910年1912年3月图上12日开始的教训，他的母亲犯自杀由溺水自己河桑布尔。这不是她的走自己的人生第一次尝试; 她已经做了很多了数年，驾驶她的丈夫列奥波尔德她锁进自己的卧室。有一天，她逃出来了，失踪了几天。她的尸体后来被发现的一英里左右在附近的河流。

据传说，13岁的马格利特在场时，她的尸体被从水中取出，但最近的研究已经名誉扫地这个故事，它可能起源与家庭护士。[2]据说，当发现自己的母亲，她的衣服挡住她的脸，已被建议作为的几个马格利特的作品在人们1927-1928源用布遮住他们的脸，包括图像莱斯Amants。

马格利特的最早的绘画，从1915年至今，是印象派的风格。[2]从1916年到1918年，他就读于布鲁塞尔皇家艺术学院在布鲁塞尔，在恒Montald，却发现指令平淡。他在1918-1924年生产的画作受到影响，未来主义和比喻立体主义的麦琴根。[2] 1922年，马格利特结婚乔其纱伯杰，谁他会见了在1913年一个孩子[1]从1920年12月至九月1921年，马格利特在比利时步兵供应Beverlo附近的弗拉芒镇利奥波德斯布尔格。在1922-23，他曾作为起草人在墙纸工厂，是一个海报和广告设计师，直到1926年，当画廊“Le Centaure酒店”在合同布鲁塞尔使人们有可能为他作画的全职。1926年，马格利特生产他的第一个超现实主义绘画，失落的赛马（乐赛马年华），并在布鲁塞尔举行首次个展于1927年批评的展览堆滥用。由故障郁闷，他移居巴黎，在那里他成为了朋友与安德烈·布雷顿，并成为所涉及的在超现实主义团体。的幻觉，梦幻般的品质是马格利特的版本超现实主义的特征。他成为了运动的领导成员在离开他的祖国比利时在1927年巴黎，在那里他呆了三年之后。[4]

画廊'Le Centaure酒店'收在1929年底，结束马格利特的合同收入。有在巴黎取得什么影响，马格利特回到布鲁塞尔，1930年，恢复广告的工作。[5]他和他的哥哥，保罗，形成了为他赢得了生活工资的机构。

在其职业生涯的早期阶段，英国超现实主义的赞助人爱德华·詹姆斯允许马格利特呆在租住在他伦敦的家中和油漆免费。詹姆斯是在两个马格利特的作品特色，乐杜普林西Plaisir的（快乐原则）和拉复制Interdite，一幅画也被称为不被重现。[6]

在德国占领比利时在第二次世界大战期间，他留在布鲁塞尔，这导致与布列塔尼休息。他简要地1943-44采用了色彩鲜艳，绘画风格，被称为他的“插曲雷诺阿时期”，因为他的异化和被遗弃感的反应，与生活在德国占领的比利时来了。1946年，放弃暴力和悲观他的早期作品，他在签署宣言，加入了其他几个比利时艺术家在全光照超现实主义。[7]在1947年至1948年，马格利特的“瓦谢时代”，他画了挑衅和原油野兽派风格。在此期间，马格利特支持自己通过生产假冒毕加索，Braques和Chiricos -a欺诈的剧目，他后来在精益战后时期扩大到伪钞的印刷。这家合资公司进行了沿着他的哥哥保罗·马格利特和同胞的超现实主义和“代孕儿子马塞尔·马里安，谁已经下降的出售伪造的任务。[8]在1948年底，他回到了风格和他的超现实主义战前的艺术主题。

他的作品被陈列在美国纽约，1936年又在该城两个回顾展，一个在现代艺术博物馆于1965年，另一个在大都会艺术博物馆于1992年。

在政治上，马格利特站到了左边，并保留密切联系的共产党，甚至在战后岁月。然而，他的共产主义左翼的功能主义文化政策提出批评，指出“阶级意识是必要的，因为面包;但是，这并不意味着工人必须受到谴责，以面包和水，并且希望鸡和香槟将是有害的。 （......）为共产主义画家，艺术活动的理由是创建的图片，可以代表精神奢侈品“。同时仍坚持政治左派，他提倡这样的艺术一定的自主权。[9] [10]在他的宗教观点，马格利特是一个不可知论者。[11]

在马格利特的作品广受关注的20世纪60年代明显上升，他的形象已经影响流行，极简主义和观念艺术。[12] 2005年，他在来到第九瓦隆版本德Grootste BELG（最伟大的比利时）; 在佛兰芒语的版本，他18日。

马格利特在六月结婚的1922年乔其纱伯杰乔其纱是一名屠夫的女儿在沙勒罗瓦，并第一次见面马格利特时，她只有13，他们在布鲁塞尔于1920年再次举行会议[13]和乔其纱随后成为马格利特的模型和缪斯。1936年马格利特的婚姻陷入困境时，他遇到了一个年轻的艺术家，希拉莱格，并开始有染。马格利特安排了他的朋友，保罗Colinet，娱乐和分散乔其，但是这导致了他的妻子和Colinet之间的事情。马格利特和他的妻子没有调和1940年之前，

马格利特死于胰腺癌 15 1967年8月，68岁，在被埋葬斯哈尔贝克公墓，埃韦勒，布鲁塞尔。

Magritte was born in Laixi in the province of Hainaut, Belgium, 1898, he is Leopold Margarete, the eldest son of a tailor and textile merchant, Regina [1] (nee Bertinchamps), who is a milliner, she got married before. Little is known about Margaret's early life. He began his lessons on 1910, 12, on the beginning of the day of his mother committing suicide by drowning himself in the river of the river, on the day of the week of the year of. This is not her first attempt to go their own life; she has done a lot for a number of years, driving her husband as well she locked her bedroom. One day, she ran out and disappeared for a few days. Her body was found about a mile later in the nearby river.
According to legend, when Margaret was 13 years old, her body was taken out of the water, but recent research has discredited the story, which may have originated with family nurses. [2] said, when his mother, her clothes in her face, has been suggested as the works of Margaret a few people cover their faces in the 1927-1928 source with a cloth, including image les Amants.Margaret's earliest painting, from 1915 to the present, is the style of impressionism. [2] from 1916 to 1918, he studied at the Royal College of Art in Brussels,, in the constant Montald, but found that instruction dull. He was influenced by 1918-1924 in the annual production of paintings and figurative Cubism, futurism Metzingen involves. [2] 1922, Margaret married Georgette Berger, whom he met in 1913 a child from December 1920 to September [1] 1921, Margaret in the vicinity of the Belgian infantry Beverlo Flemish town Liaobodesi Boolean lattice. In 1922-23, he worked as a draftsman at the wallpaper factory, was a poster and advertising designer until 1926, when the gallery "Le Centaure" in the contract Brussels made it possible for him to paint full-time. In 1926, Margaret produced his first surrealist painting, lost horse racing (Le jockey time), and held the first solo exhibition in Brussels in 1927 to criticize the exhibition heap abuse. Depressed by the failure, he moved to Paris, where he became friends with Andre Breton, and became involved in the surrealist group. The fantastic quality of Margaret's version of surrealism. He became a leading member of the movement after leaving his native Belgium in Paris in 1927, where he stayed for three years. [4]
Gallery'Le Centaure hotel 'closed at the end of 1929, ending Margaret's contract revenue. There are any impact in Paris, Margaret returned to Brussels in 1930 to resume the work of advertising. [5] he and his brother, Paul, formed an organization that earned him a living wage.
In the early stages of the occupation career, the British surrealist patron Edward James allowed Margaret to stay at his rented home in London and free of paint. James is in the two works of Margaret Le Plaisir (Dupulinxi features, the principle of happiness) and pull Interdite copy of a picture, also known as not be reproduced. [6]
During the German occupation of Belgium during the Second World War, he stayed in Brussels, which resulted in a break with brittany. He briefly 1943-44 adopted a colorful, painting style, known as his "episode of the Renoir era", because of his alienation and the sense of abandonment, and living in the German occupation of Belgium came. In 1946, to renounce violence and pessimism in his early works, he signed a declaration to join several other Belgian artists in full light surrealism. [7] from 1947 to 1948, Margaret's "Vachon era", he drew a provocative and crude brutalist style. In the meantime, Margaret supported herself through the production of fake Picasso, Braques and Chiricos -a fraud repertoire, he later in the post-war period extended to lean counterfeit printing. The joint venture carried out along with his brother Paul Margarete and fellow surrealist and "surrogate son, Marcel Marian, who has fallen on the sale of forged tasks. [8] at the end of 1948, he returned to the style and theme of his pre war art.
His work was exhibited in New York, USA, in 1936 and in the city's two retrospective exhibition, one at the Museum of modern art in 1965, and the other in Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1992.
Politically, Margaret stood on the left and retained close ties with the Communist Party, even after the war years. However, the function of culture policy of his communist left-wing criticism, pointed out that "class consciousness is necessary, because the bread; however, this does not mean that workers must be condemned, with bread and water, and hope that the chicken and champagne will be harmful. (for...) a painter of communism, the reason for artistic activity is to create a picture that can represent the spirit of luxury". At the same time, he insisted on the political left, and he advocated the autonomy of art. [9] [10] in his religious views, Margaret is an agnostic. [11]
Popular in the works of Margaret increased significantly in 1960s, his image has influenced pop, minimalism and conceptual art. [12] 2005, he came to the ninth version of BELG de Grootste (Walloon greatest Belgian); in the Flemish version, he 18.Margaret married in June 1922, Berger was a butcher Georgette Georgette daughter in Charleroi, and first met Margaret when she was only 13, they met again in Brussels in 1920 and later became the [13] Georgette model and Mousika Margaret. In 1936 Margaret's marriage was in trouble, he met a young artist, Sheila Legge, and began an affair. Margaret arranged for his friend, Paul Colinet, to entertain and distract Joe, but this led to a matter between his wife and Colinet. Margaret and his wife did not reconcile before 1940,
Margaret died of pancreatic cancer on August 151967, aged 68, was buried in Beck cemetery. Sihaer, weller, Brussels.