Gabriel Pomerand (c. 1926 - 1972) was a French poet, artist and a co-founder of
lettrism
Lettrism is a French avant-garde movement, established in Paris in the mid-1940s by Romanian immigrant Isidore Isou. In a body of work totaling hundreds of volumes, Isou and the Lettrists have applied their theories to all areas of art and culture ...
.
He was born in
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
and moved to
Alsace
Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...
at a young age, and then on to
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ...
where he worked as a student for the
Resistance. His mother was deported to
Auschwitz, yet he survived.
After the war, he moved back to Paris. Here he met
Isidore Isou
Isidore Isou (; 29 January 1925 – 28 July 2007), born Isidor Goldstein, was a Romanian-born French poet, dramaturge, novelist, film director, economist, and visual artist who lived in the 20th century. He was the founder of Lettrism, an art ...
, with whom he founded the lettrist movement.
He wrote ''Saint Ghetto of the Loans'', a book of "politically charged urban rebuses", in 1950.
Isou expelled him from the movement in 1956, after which he turned to opium.
He committed suicide in 1972 in
Corsica.
References
External links
Gabriel Pomerand on LeLettrisme.com
1920s births
1972 suicides
20th-century French painters
20th-century French male artists
French male painters
Lettrism
Writers from Paris
Writers from Marseille
20th-century French poets
French male poets
20th-century male writers
20th-century French male writers
1972 deaths
Suicides in France
French Jews
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