How did Georges Braque’s war injury interrupt his artistic career?

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Georges Braque Braque, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1956

During World War I, Georges Braque served as an infantry sergeant and was decorated for bravery. His artistic career was interrupted in 1915 when he sustained a serious head wound, which necessitated a trepanation and several months of hospitalization.1

Following this surgery, Braque underwent a long period of convalescence at his home in Sorgues. During this time, he was unable to paint but continued his intellectual engagement with art by recording aphorisms in the margins of his drawings. These reflections were later published in 1917 as "Thoughts and Reflections on Painting." After being released from further military service, Braque returned to the Cubist movement in 1917, though his collaboration with Pablo Picasso did not resume.1