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 cultur ...

. He was born in

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and moved to

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at a young age, and then on to

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where he worked as a student for the Resistance. His mother was deported to

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, 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. He was the founder of Lettrism, an art and literary movement which ...

, 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

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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 French male writers 1972 deaths Suicides in France French Jews {{France-poet-stub