Birth Chart
Balthus
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
Sun Pisces
Moon Aquarius
Ascendant Cancer
Influences in signs
↣ Sun in Pisces - 09°33' - in house 9
↣ Moon in Aquarius - 07°56' - in house 8
↣ Mercury in Pisces - 08°50' - in house 9 - retrograde
↣ Venus in Aries - 18°28' - in house 10/11
↣ Mars in Taurus - 04°25' - in house 11
↣ Jupiter in Leo - 04°58' - in house 2 - retrograde
↣ Saturn in Pisces - 27°40' - in house 10
↣ Uranus in Capricorn - 15°48' - in house 7
↣ Neptune in Cancer - 12°13' - in house 1 - retrograde
↣ Pluto in Gemini - 22°47' - in house 12 - retrograde
↣ North Node in Cancer - 12°47' - in house 1 - retrograde
↣ Ascendant in Cancer - 19°07' - in house 1
↣ Midheaven in Pisces - 22°24' - in house 10
↣ Equatorial Ascendant in Gemini - 23°35'
Influences in houses
↣ Sun in house 9
↣ Moon in house 8
↣ Mercury in house 9
↣ Venus in house 10/11
↣ Mars in house 11
↣ Jupiter in house 2
↣ Saturn in house 10
↣ Uranus in house 7
↣ Neptune in house 1
↣ Pluto in house 12
↣ North Node in house 1
↣ Ascendant in house 1
↣ Midheaven in house 10
Aspects
↣ Sun and Mercury conjunction (0°43' separating)
↣ Sun and Venus antiparallel
↣ Sun and Mars sextile (5°09' separating)
↣ Sun and Neptune trine (2°40' applying)
↣ Sun and North Node trine (3°14' applying)
↣ Moon and Mars square (3°31' separating)
↣ Moon and Jupiter opposition (2°58' separating) antiparallel
↣ Mercury and Mars sextile (4°26' applying)
↣ Mercury and Neptune trine (3°23' separating)
↣ Mercury and North Node trine (3°57' separating)
↣ Venus and Uranus square (2°40' separating)
↣ Venus and Pluto sextile (4°19' applying)
↣ Venus and North Node square (5°41' separating)
↣ Venus and Equatorial Ascendant sextile (5°08' separating)
↣ Venus and Ascendant square (0°39' separating)
↣ Mars and Jupiter square (0°33' applying)
↣ Saturn and Pluto square (4°53' separating)
↣ Saturn and Equatorial Ascendant square (4°04' applying)
↣ Saturn and Midheaven conjunction (5°15' applying) parallel
↣ Uranus and Neptune opposition (3°35' separating) antiparallel
↣ Uranus and North Node opposition (3°01' separating) antiparallel
↣ Uranus and Ascendant opposition (3°20' separating) antiparallel
↣ Neptune and North Node conjunction (0°34' applying) parallel
↣ Neptune and Ascendant conjunction (6°54' separating) parallel
↣ Pluto and Equatorial Ascendant conjunction (0°49' separating)
↣ Pluto and Midheaven square (0°23' applying)
↣ North Node and Ascendant conjunction (6°20' separating) parallel
Birth data
- Original name
- Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
- Chart date
- 29/02/1908
- Chart time
- 13:00
- Date and time quality
- AA Birth record cited what does this mean?
- Data origin
- Astro-Databank
- Location
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Paris, France - Latitude and longitude
- 48°52' North · 2°20' East
- Time zone
- 00:09 East
The data used to calculate the charts comes from public sources, as do the descriptive texts. We use sources such as Wikipedia.
About
Balthasar Klossowski was a French visual artist of Polish origin. Throughout his career, Balthus rejected the usual conventions of the art world. He insisted that his paintings should be seen, not read, and resisted all attempts to construct a biographical profile.
In 1933 he went to Paris where he had a studio first on Rue de Furstemberg and later in the Cour de Rohan. Balthus did not show interest in the styles of Modernism and Cubism. His paintings often depicted young girls in erotic and "voyeuristic" poses. One of the best-known works shown at his first exhibition in Paris was The Guitar Lesson (1934), which caused controversy due to the sexually explicit depiction of a girl on her back across her seated teacher's lap, the teacher's hands on the girl as if playing a guitar: one near her exposed vagina, and the other grasping her hair. Other important works shown at the same exhibition were La Rue (1933), La Toilette de Cathy (1933) and Alice dans le miroir (1933).
His work was early admired by writers and fellow painters, especially André Breton and Pablo Picasso. In his circle of friends in Paris were the novelists Pierre Jean Jouve, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Joseph Breitbach, Pierre Leyris, Henri Michaux, Michel Leiris and René Char, the photographer Man Ray, the playwright and actor Antonin Artaud, and the painters André Derain, Joan Miró and Alberto Giacometti.
