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Michel Nedjar

Michel Nedjar
  • Name: Michel Nedjar
  • Birthday: 1947-10-12
  • Place of birth: Soisy-sous-Montmorency, Val d'Oise, France
  • Popularity: 0.011
Biography: Master of Art Brut, Michel Nedjar was born in 1947 in the Val d'Oise to a Jewish family marked by war and the holocaust. His father, born in Algiers, settled in Paris in 1921 as a tailor. At home, he tinkered on a sewing machine doll clothes for his sisters. During the Second World War, a large part of his family fell victim to Nazi oppression. In 1960, he became aware of the magnitude of the Holocaust. At the age of fourteen, he enrolled in a vocational school to become a tailor and sells jeans with his flea grandfather from Saint-Ouen and accompanies his grandmother to the scrap fair; she makes him share his love for Shmattès (the worn cloth) that she picks up and stacks. In the spring... Read More

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Title Release date
Dolls of Darkness: The Art of Michel Nedjar   as  Self 2016-06-06
Madrid, Quelques Images 1991-04-08
Le chant de l'âme 1989-01-01
Fragments 1987-01-28
Robillard André, Nedjar Michel 1986-04-06
Chutes de Michel Nedjar   as  Himself 1984-12-31
Mesures de miel et de lait sauvage 1984-01-01
Portraits / Mirrors 1984-01-01
Bouquet of Eyes 1983-12-31
Souvenirs/Rouen   as  Himself 1983-06-08
4 à 4 Métro-Barbès-Rochechou-Art 1983-03-16
Sur Graal de T.H. 1981-02-17
Chutes de Pascal   as  Himself 1981-01-01
Sara 1981-01-01
Graal 1980-07-25
Lacrima Christi 1980-04-19
Hors-jeu 1979-01-01
Cristaux 1978-12-22
Cinématon   as  N°27 1978-12-20
Cinématon n°27 : Michel Nedjar 1978-10-19
Cinématon III   as  N°27 1978-10-18
Michel Nedjar   as  Self 1978-01-01
J'aime   as  Himself 1978-01-01
Esmeralda 1977-12-31
Cristo 1977-08-30
Salomé 1976-01-01
Pause 1970-07-01
Michel Over There 1970-04-01