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.

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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 {{France-poet-stub