Who did the faceless business man.?
You are refering to a series of images made by Rene Magritte. Son of Man 1964… René François Ghislain Magritte (November 21, 1898 – August 15, 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. Bowler hatted men appeared in his work as far back as 1927 – but it was in 1955 that he started to expand the use of them as a symbol. In real life, his wife was unaware of his activities as an artist, as he dressed for the office each day in a suit and bowler hat, and went to his studio, returning in the same suit at 6pm. It was only after he retired that she became aware that he was an artist. Thus the faceless man is Magritte’s public persona. At the age of 16, Magritte met Georgette Berger, the girl who would be his future wife and creative muse. A year later, in 1914, he left Georgette behind, and he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels – He would not see his beloved Georgette again until 1920, when by chance he would meet her at an art supply store. While studying at the Academy of Fine
