Paul Dermée

Paul Dermée (1886–1951) was a

Belgian Belgian may refer to: * Something of, or related to, Belgium * Belgians, people from Belgium or of Belgian descent * Languages of Belgium, languages spoken in Belgium, such as Dutch, French, and German *Ancient Belgian language, an extinct languag ...

writer, poet, literary critique. Born Camille Janssen in

Liège Liège ( , , ; wa, Lîdje ; nl, Luik ; german: Lüttich ) is a major city and municipality of Wallonia and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far fro ...

, Belgium in 1886, he died in Paris in 1951. He knew the painters Picasso, Juan Gris, Sonia and Robert Delaunay and the poets Valéry Larbaud and Max Jacob. His wife,

Céline Arnauld Céline Arnauld (born Carolina Goldstein on 20 September 1885, Călăraşi (Romania), died on 23 December 1952 by suicide in Paris) was a writer associated with Dadaism. Arnauld’s poetry appears earliest in her first published volume of 1914, ...

, was also an active poet and participant in the Paris Dada movement. Discovered by the writer

Tristan Tzara Tristan Tzara (; ; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, comp ...

, he took the risk (in times of war) to diffuse the "

Dada Dada () or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916). New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Pari ...

" review in the province of Zurich. In exchange he received the title "Proconsul Dada". He was director of the magazine '' L'Esprit Nouveau''. 20th-century Belgian poets Belgian male poets Writers from Liège 1886 births 1951 deaths 20th-century Belgian male writers {{Belgium-writer-stub