Max Jacob

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Max Jacob
Quimper, Finistère, Brittany, France
Died5 March 1944(1944-03-05) (aged 67)
Drancy Deportation Camp, France
Pen nameLéon David
Morven le Gaëlique
Literary movementSchool of Paris
Signature
Max Jacob, by Modigliani, 1916

Max Jacob (French: [maks ʒakɔb]; 12 July 1876 – 5 March 1944) was a French poet, painter, writer, and critic.

Pablo Picasso, 1921, Three Musicians, oil on canvas, 200.7 × 222.9 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest; the figure on the right (holding the sheet music) represents Max Jacob.

Life and career

After spending his childhood in

Christopher Wood and Amedeo Modigliani, who painted his portrait in 1916. He also befriended and encouraged the artist Romanin, otherwise known as French politician, and future Resistance leader Jean Moulin
. Moulin's famous nom de guerre Max is presumed to be selected in honor of Jacob.

Jacob, who was

Catholicism. He was hopeful that this conversion would alleviate his homosexual tendencies.[3]

Max Jacob is regarded as an important link between the

Gallimard edition was illustrated by Jean Hugo
) and in his paintings, exhibitions of which were held in New York City in 1930 and 1938.

His writings include the novel Saint Matorel (1911), the free verses Le laboratoire central (1921), and La défense de Tartuffe (1919), which expounds his philosophical and religious attitudes.

The famous psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan attributed the quote "The truth is always new" to Jacob.[4]

Death

Having moved outside of Paris in May 1936, to settle in

Nazis at this time. A cousin, Andrée Jacob, survived by living under an assumed name and worked in the Resistance movement Noyautage des administrations publiques.[6] Following his incarceration at Orléans, Max was then transferred to Drancy internment camp from where he was to be transported in the next convoy to Auschwitz. However, said to be suffering from bronchial pneumonia, Max Jacob died on 5 March in the infirmary of La Cité de la Muette, a former housing block which served as the internment camp known as Drancy.[7] Andrée Jacob, a cousin of the Jacob siblings, worked in the Noyautage des administrations publiques

First interred in

Pseudonyms

As well as his nom d'état civil, or regular name, Jacob worked under at least two pseudonyms, Léon David and Morven le Gaëlique.

In popular culture

German actor Udo Kier plays Jacob in the 2004 film Modigliani. In the 2006 film Monsieur Max, which deals with the life of Jacob from the First World War until his death, he was played by Jean-Claude Brialy; this was Brialy's last film. In the 2013 Spanish film La banda Picasso, Jacob is played by Lionel Abelanski.[8]

Genius
, which focuses on the life and career of Pablo Picasso.

Gallery

  • Le pardon de Sainte-Anne
    Le pardon de Sainte-Anne
  • Le clocher de Ploaré
    Le clocher de Ploaré
  • Le marché à Pont-l'Abbé
    Le marché à Pont-l'Abbé
  • Le calvaire de Guengat
    Le calvaire de Guengat

See also

  • Lionel Floch
  • Furniture music: Erik Satie's second set of furniture music was composed and performed in 1920 as Entr'acte music for one of Jacob's comedies (Ruffian toujours, truand jamais – text of this play is lost)
  • The Selected Poems of Max Jacob, trans. William Kulik (Oberlin College Press, 1999),
  • Monsieur Max (2007), French TV movie starring Jean-Claude Brialy as Jacob, in Brialy's last film role

References

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  3. ^ "Max Jacob". 21 March 2020.
  4. ^ Lacan, Jacques (2008) My Teaching, Verso Press.
  5. ^ "Les Collections".
  6. ^ a b "Marie-Jo Bonnet raconte les résistantes oubliées". February 2013.
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  8. ^ Holland, Jonathan (5 February 2013). "Picasso's Gang". Variety. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

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