Gabriel Pomerand, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French painter
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Gabriel Pomerand
- Gabriel Pomerand (c.
- 1926 - 1972) was a French poet, artist and a co-founder of lettrism.
- He was born in Paris and moved to Alsace at a young age, and then on to Marseille 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, 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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