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Pierre Daix

Pierre Daix
  • Name: Pierre Daix
  • Birthday: 1922-05-24
  • Place of birth: Ivry-sur-Seine, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
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Biography: Pierre Georges Daix (24 May 1922 – 2 November 2014) was a French journalist, writer and art historian. He was a friend and biographer of Pablo Picasso. As a young man, Daix was an ardent Stalinist. He joined the French Communist Party at the age of 17 in 1939 when the Communist Party was banned for supporting the German-Soviet pact. In July 1940, he created a student club, the Centre laïque des auberges de la jeunesse (Claj), which served as a legal screen for the clandestine Union of Communist Students. When David Rousset (1912-1997) spoke out about Stalin's vast system of prison camps, Daix attacked him as a liar, denying that the GULAG system existed in the Soviet Union, in a 16... Read More

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Title Release date
Sommer '39   as  Self 2009-08-12
Picassos Friseur   as  Self / Biographer 2001-10-28
Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell   as  Himself - Mauthausen Prisoner 2000-01-01