Apollinaire

American  

[uh-pol-uh-nair, a-paw-lee-ner] / əˌpɒl əˈnɛər, a pɔ liˈnɛr /

noun

1. Guillaume Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, 1880–1918, French poet and art critic, born in Italy.

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Apollinaire British  

/ apɔlinɛr /

noun

1. Guillaume (ɡijom), real name Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki. 1880–1918, French poet, novelist, and dramatist, regarded as a precursor of surrealism; author of Alcoöls (1913) and Calligrammes (1918)

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Apollinaire

“Dreamworld” opens, in the section “Waking Dream,” with harbingers of Surrealism—fusing classicism and modernism, reality and fantasy—by Giorgio de Chirico, whom Apollinaire described as a painter of things beyond the observable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025

Suspicion initially fell on poet Guillaume Apollinaire and artist Pablo Picasso.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

"We demand justice and reparations for the family," said Narcisse's older brother, Apollinaire Rititingar.

From Reuters ● Oct. 28, 2022

Jacob, a gifted French poet and painter, palled around early-20th-century Paris with modernism’s greats — Picasso, Apollinaire, Cocteau.

From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2020

Being connected to the statues was bad enough for Apollinaire.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day