Constantin Brancusi, considered one of the greatest sculptors of the twentieth century, was born on 19^th February 1876 at Hobita, Gorj county.

His name is associated with the vanguard of the modern sculpture and his works are on display in museums throughout the world.

In 1894 he joins The School of Arts and Craftsmanship that he finishes in four years instead of five.

In 1898 he joins the School of Belle Arte in Bucharest. In 1901 he leaves on foot to Paris, his adoptive city, where he arrives in 1904 on the 14^th of July with a bag on his back and singing at the pipe.

In 1905 he is admitted to Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in the workshop of Antoine Mercier. In 1906 he meets Auguste Rodin, at the Autumn Show-room whose realist style will embrace for a certain period of time and after that to pass to wood and stone engraving.

His sculptures were displayed in 1913 at Paris, Bucharest, London, Munich, New York, Chicago, Boston.

The period between the two World Wars was for Brancusi the most prolific one. Then he created  his representative works: Miss Pogany, The Kiss, Maiastra, Prayer, Child`s Head, Muse, The Endless Column, The Gate of the Kiss, The Table of Silence.

The most numerous exhibitions, 23, were in the United States of America, of which three personal exhibitions in New York.

In 1926 when he wanted to enter, for an exhibition, the United States of America with „Bird in Space” the Custom Service did not recognize the sculpture as a work of art, but simply as a piece of metal, therefore taxable. Brancusi prosecuted the United States and he won the trial.

He travelled many times to Bucharest and to the rest of Europe as well as to India and Egypt.

In 1935 as an answer to the town of Targu Jiu request he initiated the work at the sculptural ensemble that includes The Endless Column, The Gate of the Kiss, The Table of Silence,  inaugurated in 1938.

His last work was „Le Grand Coq” that was finalized in 1949.

He obtains the French citizenship only in 1952. 

In 1956 he left through his testament his workshop to the French state.

On March the 16^th he died in Paris and he was buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery.