Max Jacob
Max Jacob · Arts & Literature
Poet / lyricist
1876, Quimper, France — 1944, Drancy, France
France
Max Jacob is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Poet / lyricist
Max Jacob was a French poet, painter and critic, a central figure of the Parisian avant-garde who helped shape modern prose poetry with 'Le Cornet à dés' and was a close friend of Picasso and Apollinaire. Born into a Jewish family in Quimper, he converted to Catholicism in 1915 but was arrested as a Jew by the Gestapo and died in the Drancy internment camp in 1944.
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Poet / lyricist
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