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Oct 21, 2020 · Who was Max Jacob? A poet, friend of Picasso and, a new biography shows, a man who defied easy labels
Oct 20, 2020 · In “Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters,” Rosanna Warren retraces the colorful history of a now largely forgotten figure of French modernism who was surrounded by famous friends.
Max Jacob was a Jewish poet, painter, writer, and critic. He was born in Quimper, Brittany, France. In 1897, he left the Paris Colonial School to pursue a career as an artist. Jacob shared a room with Pablo Picasso on the Boulevard Voltaire.
Max Jacob was born in 1876, in Quimper, France. He was the author of numerous books, including the poetry collections Le Laboratoire central and Le Cornet à dés.
On 24 February 1944, Max Jacob was arrested and taken to the prison in Orléans. He was transferred to the Drancy camp on 28 February and died there of pneumonia on 5 March. He was buried at the Ivry cemetery, then his body was moved to Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire on 5 March 1949.
Max Jacob was an artist and poet. He was also an important interlocutor in Montmartre, where he facilitated connectionsbetween members of the avant-garde community of artists and writers in the first decades of the twentieth century. In 1894 Jacob left his native Brittany for Paris.
Max Jacob (French: [maks ʒakɔb]; 12 July 1876 – 5 March 1944) was a French poet, painter, writer, and critic.
