People
Pierre Daix
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
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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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 |