I borrow this title from the Almanac of Father Ubu to indicate here the unofficial commemorations to be expected this year. They concern the surrealists and related persons present in the database "Surrealists of all countries"

For each person named, you will find, in order: Name, Civil Status, Career, Journals, Collective Interventions, Exhibitions, Country (of reference). The ephemerides of the year 2014 are available on the same page of Béharitudes.

Centenary of birth

ASAHARA Kiyotaka; 1915, Nagoya, Japan – 1945, Burma. Painter. Nostalgia, 1938. Japan.

BELANCE René; 1915, Corail,– 2004, Haiti. Poet. Welcomes Breton (Port-au-Prince, 1945). Exiled to the USA he abandons poetry. Luminaires, collection (1941), Shadow Shoulder, collection (1945). Rep. of Haiti.

BOURGOIGNIE Paul; 1915, Brussels, – 1995, Brussels, Belgium. Visual artist, writer, architect. Contact with Belgian surrealists (1945). Animator of "Revolutionary Surrealism" (1947-1948). Member of "Cobra" (1948-1950). Morose Pink Words (1968). Public Salvation, (co-founder, 1945), The Two Sisters (1946), BISR (1948), Cobra (1949-1950), Petit Cobra (1949), The Naked Lips (1955-1958) Phantomas, Daily bûl. Great Britain.

CHERKESHI Sadi; 1915, Turkey – Poet. Close to the surrealist group (1944-1946). Friend of Feyyaz Fergar. Automatic texts, circa 1940. Dint (co-director, 1944), Messages from nowhere (1944), Free unions (1946). Exhibits at the "Mayor gallery" (1939, 1947, 1977). Living art in England ("London gallery", 1939), International arts center (1942). Turkey

DEL RENZIO Toni; 1915, Tsarkoeselo, Russia – 2007, London. Poet, painter. Husband of Colquhoun. Stays in Italy then in France (1936). Meets French surrealists. Installation in London (1940). Member of the surrealist group (1940-1942). Anim. at "[gr. around Del Renzio]". Arson (director, 1942), View (1943), New road (director, 1943). Great Britain.

Tract "Incendiary innocence" (1944) and response to Idolatry and confusion, by Brunius and Mesens (April 1944). International surrealist exhibition (1936), Surrealist objects and poems ("London gallery", 1937). Slovakia.

FABRY Rudolf; 1915, Bratislava – 1982, Bratislava. Poet, collagist. Founding member of the 'Slovak surrealist group' (1938). Cut Hands, first collection, 1935.

FRÉDÉRIQUE André; 1915, Nanterre – 1957, Paris. Poet. Meets Parisot (1944). Close to surrealist gr. (1947-1957). The Four Winds (1946-1947), The Two Sisters (Brussels), The Time of Poetry (1949), The Ship (Poetic Humor, 1950). Signs To the kennel... (1948). Surrealism in 1947 (cat., 1947). France.

GERZSO Gunther; 1915 – 2000, Mexico. Painter Friend of Paalen. Surrealist painting from 1938. VVV (1943). 4th International Exhibition., 1950 Expo prefaced by Palen. Mexico.

GLEESON James; 1915, Sydney Australia. – 2008. Painter, collagist, draftsman, poet, essayist. Unsuccessful meeting, in the company of Robert Klippel, with A. Breton because of the language problem (1938). Excellent contacts with R. Penrose, H. Moore and E. T. L. The Attitude of Lightning Towards a Lady-Mountain 1939, oil on canvas. Poems-Drawings written between 1938-1943: Canto One, 1938. A Comment, Art in Australia, Angry Penguins. What is surrealism?, essay, Art in Australia (n° 81, Nov. 1940): 1st text mentioning Australian surrealists. London Gallery (London, Nov-Dec. 1948). Australia.

GOMEZ-CORREA Enrique; 1915-2003, Santiago-du-Chili – Poet, essayist, translator, ambassador. Friend of Hérold, Brauner, Magritte, Donati. First poems in Total, circa 1935. Mandragora (co-founder), Surrealist Bulletin (co-director), Total, Surprised Poetry (Santo Domingo), VVV, Altazor, BLS, Blonde Mists (second series), Hellebore. Translates. Apollinaire. Chile.

HOLZER Max; 1915, Graz, Austria – 1984, Paris. Poet, painter. Animator of the "Art-Club" (1946-).

MALRIEU Jean; 1915, Montauban – 1975, Montauban. Poet. Meets Breton and Péret (1953). Close to surrealist gr. (1953-1968). The Breach (1962-1964), The Archibra (1968), Edda (???). Illus. by Dax (The Cathar Castle, 1972). France.

MOLLER-NIELSEN Egon; 1915, Copenhagen – 1959, Stockholm. Architect, visual artist. Influence. The Cry, 1942.

MOREAU Franz; 1915-1962. Poet. Member of the "High Night" group (1947). Flint (1950).

MOTHERWELL Robert; 1915, Aberdeen, Washington – 1991. USA Painter, theorist, art critic. Stay in Paris (1938). Through Schapiro, meets Seligmann who gives him painting lessons. Meets the French group in exile in NY. Frequents "Studio 17". Dyn (1941-1943), VVV (1944). USA.

NAUM Gellu; 1915–2001, Bucharest Romania. Poet, theorist. Animator of the Romanian surrealist group (1940-1947). Stay in France (end 1938-end 1939): meets the French group through Brauner. Adheres to surrealism (1938-1939). The Incendiary Traveler, 1936. Surrealist publications, ? Literature (London). Translates. Char, Gracq after 1945. Manifesto Critique of Misery, with Paun and Teodorescu, 1945. The Infra Black (1946). Romania.

RAK Jan; 1915, Hradiste – 1969, Bratislava. Poet. Participates in the activities of the Slovak surrealist group. Exhausted, 1942. Translator of Baudelaire and Rimbaud. Slovakia.

SCHULTZE Bernhard; 1915, Schneidemühl, Western Prussia – 2005, Cologne. Painter, visual artist. Animator of the "Quadriga" group (1952-). Meets Bryen, Jaguer, Éthuin (1952). Participates in "Phases" (1954 and 1978). Germany

Fiftieth anniversary of death

GAN Adrian-Nilsson; 1884, Lund – 1965, Stockholm. Painter. (Pseudonym of Adrian-Nilsson Gösta) Contact, collage, 1928. Self-declaration surrealist in Dagens nyheter, 1939. Sweden.

SERVRANCKX Victor; 1897, Dieghem – 1965, Elewijt Belgium. Painter. Meets Magritte (First World War). Important figure of Belgian constructivism (1925-1935). Epistolary contacts with Breton. The Tamed Disaster: Opus 3 and 4 (1927), Opus 2 (1934). The Surrealist Revolution (1929), Edda. Phases (Brussels, 1964). Belgium

TIKAL Vaclav; 1906, Ptetin – 1965, Prague. Painter. Participates in the "Ra" group, member of the "Surrealism Group in Czechoslovakia" reconstituted by Teige (1949) (from 1950). Participates in "Phases" (1964-1970). Member of the Effenberger Circle. Symbiosis, 1945. Surrealist Drawings (1935), [2nd International Exhibition], Kaigai chôgenjitsushugi, International Surrealism Exhibition (1938), International Exhibition (Amsterdam, 1938), Surrealism in 1947, International Surrealist Exhibition... Exhibits at the "Sealed Star" Gallery. Czech Rep.