Marcel Duchamp
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Date of Birth
1887, Normandy, France
Nationality
French, U.S. citizen since 1955
Bio
Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) was born in Blainville, Normandy in the northern region of France, but sojourned through Europe and the United States for much of his career. Embracing itinerancy, Duchamp lived as an expatriate in New York and Buenos Aires, and was greatly influenced by a five-month trip to Munich in 1912. Duchamp left France during World War I (arriving in New York on June 15, 1915) to escape the stultifying Parisian atmosphere thathe believed threatened his artistic creativity
