Gabriel Pomerand (c. 1926 - 1972) was a French poet, artist and a co-founder of lettrism.[3] 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.
Gabriel Pomerand | |
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Born | (1926-06-13)June 13, 1926[1] Paris |
Died | July 1972 (aged 46)[2] Corsica |
Occupation | Poet, artist |
Nationality | French |
Genre | Lettrism |
After the war, he moved back to Paris. Here he met Isidore Isou, with whom he founded the lettrist movement.[3] He wrote Saint Ghetto of the Loans, a book of "politically charged urban rebuses", in 1950.[4] Isou expelled him from the movement in 1956, after which he turned to opium.[3] He committed suicide in 1972 in Corsica.
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