Mechtilt, born 1934 in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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 was a painter

Painting

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, illustrator

Illustrator

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, poet

Poet

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 and writer

Writer

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. She died in 2000.

Life and work

Born 1934 in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

, daughter of an architect, graduated from the Academy of the Fine Arts in Amsterdam. Died in Paris

Paris

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 in 2000. In 1956 she married painter Jan Meijer. Lived and worked in France after 1960. Created a great number of "artist's books". Painted on canvas and Japanese paper. Thousands of drawings in Chinese ink. Longtime correspondence with Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin

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. Influenced by the music of Alban Berg

Alban Berg

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 and Miles Davis

Miles Davis

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. The three films created on her work by Robert Sève, "Erographes", "Mechtilt" and "Skyros" were shown by the Montreal Film Festival

Montreal World Film Festival

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 in 1981 among films on Picasso, Bram van Velde

Bram van Velde

Bram van Velde was a Dutch painter known for an intensely colored and geometric semi-representational painting style related to Tachisme, and Lyrical Abstraction...

 and de Kooning

Willem de Kooning

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. Writings on her work by: Robert Franquinet, Sadi de Gorter, Hans Jaffé, Gaëtan Picon, Geneviève Breerette, J.M. Dunouer, Jean Laude, Gilles Plazy, Pierre Brisset

Jean-Pierre Brisset

Jean-Pierre Brisset was a French writer.Born in a family of farmers, Brisset was an outsider writer, much like Henri Rousseau was an outsider artist. He is a saint on the 'Pataphysics calendar. His writings are in publication as of 2004.Brisset was an autodidact...

, Olivier Grignan, Chantal Chawaf

Chantal Chawaf

Chantal Chawaf is a French writer.She was born in Paris, during the World War II. During her childhood, she studied art at l'Ecole du Louvre and literature. She travelled and lived for some years in Europe, in the Middle East and North America...

, Chantal Maillet, Hélène Cixous

Hélène Cixous

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, Michel Bernard, Frédérick Bergounious, Robert Sève, Claude Beausoleil, Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine

Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine

Mohammed Khair-Eddine was amongst the most famous Moroccan literary figures of the 20th century. Born in 1941 in Tafraoute, as a young writer he joined the circle of writers known as the Amitiés littéraires et artistiques in Casablanca. In 1964 Khair-Eddir founded the "Poésie Toute" movement. In...

, Sezer Tanzug, Maati Kabal, Christine Buci-Glucksmann

Christine Buci-Glucksmann

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, Francoise Gaillard

Francoise Gaillard

Françoise Gaillard is a French literary critic and Professor at University of Paris VII specializing in fin-de-siècle French literature, aesthetics and art.-Background :...

, etc. Illustrated such poets as: Leopold Senghor

Léopold Sédar Senghor

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, Aimé Césaire

Aimé Césaire

Aimé Fernand David Césaire was a French poet, author and politician from Martinique. He was "one of the founders of the négritude movement in Francophone literature".-Student, educator, and poet:...

, Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka

Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...

, Adonis, Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler .Lionised in Britain and the United States,...

, Abdelkebir Katibi Eddine, René Char

René Char

René Char was a 20th century French poet.-Biography:Char was born in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in the Vaucluse department of France, the youngest of four children of Emile Char and Marie-Therese Rouget, where his father was mayor and managing director of the Vaucluse plasterworks...

, Lionel Bourg, Jacques Dupin

Jacques Dupin

Jacques Dupin is a French poet, art critic, and co-founder of the journal L'éphemère.A resident of Paris since 1944, he is director of publication at Galerie Maeght.- Jacques Dupin's poetry in English :...

, Hélène Cixous, de Sade

Marquis de Sade

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, Marcel Moreau

Marcel Moreau

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, Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

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, etc.