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Gregoire Michonze BIOGRAPHY
1902 Kichnieff, Bessarabia, Moldova - 1982 France. Known for: Surrealist painting, drawing.
Born in Kishinev, Gregoire Michonze took his early artistic training at the Art School in his home town where the traditional painting of icons led on to an interest in working with gouache. After... Read full biography
Born in Kishinev, Gregoire Michonze took his early artistic training at the Art School in his home town where the traditional painting of icons led on to an interest in working with gouache. After Bessarabia was annexed by Romania in 1918, he moved to Bucharest where he entered the Bucharest... Read full biography
Born in Kishinev, Gregoire Michonze took his early artistic training at the Art School in his home town where the traditional painting of icons led on to an interest in working with gouache. After Bessarabia was annexed by Romania in 1918, he moved to Bucharest where he entered the Bucharest Painters Academy where he also worked as an assistant set designer at the National Theatre. In 1922 he traveled to Paris via Greece, Istanbul and Marseilles, a journey which strongly influenced his later... Read full biography
Born in Kishinev, Gregoire Michonze took his early artistic training at the Art School in his home town where the traditional painting of icons led on to an interest in working with gouache. After Bessarabia was annexed by Romania in 1918, he moved to Bucharest where he entered the Bucharest Painters Academy where he also worked as an assistant set designer at the National Theatre. In 1922 he traveled to Paris via Greece, Istanbul and Marseilles, a journey which strongly influenced his later landscape painting. In Paris he entered École des Beaux-Arts. A chance meeting with Max Ernst led to Michonze being introduced to a group of Ernst`s fellow Surrealists. Between 1927 and 1930 he was producing still lives and surrealist paintings and he... Read full biography
Born in Kishinev, Gregoire Michonze took his early artistic training at the Art School in his home town where the traditional painting of icons led on to an interest in working with gouache. After Bessarabia was annexed by Romania in 1918, he moved to Bucharest where he entered the Bucharest Painters Academy where he also worked as an assistant set designer at the National Theatre. In 1922 he traveled to Paris via Greece, Istanbul and Marseilles, a journey which strongly influenced his later landscape painting. In Paris he entered École des Beaux-Arts. A chance meeting with Max Ernst led to Michonze being introduced to a group of Ernst`s fellow Surrealists. Between 1927 and 1930 he was producing still lives and surrealist paintings and he had changed his name to the more French sounding Michonze. He met Henry Miller at this time and established a long lasti... Read full biography
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Born in Kishinev, Gregoire Michonze took his early artistic training at the Art School in his home town where the traditional painting of icons led on to an interest in working with gouache.
After Bessarabia was annexed by Romania in 1918, he moved to Bucharest where he entered the Bucharest Painters Academy where he also worked as an assistant set designer at the National Theatre.
In 1922 he traveled to Paris via Greece, Istanbul and Marseilles, a journey which strongly influenced his later landscape painting. In Paris he entered École des Beaux-Arts. A chance meeting with Max Ernst led to Michonze being introduced to a group of Ernst`s fellow Surrealists. Between 1927 and 1930 he was producing still lives and surrea...But wait, there's more...
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