Gisèle Lestrange or Gisèle de Lestrange, and after marriage, Gisèle Celan-Lestrange (19 March 1927 – 9 December 1991), was a French
graphic artist
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Biography
Born in Paris, Lestrange studied drawing and painting at the
Académie Julian
The Académie Julian () was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) that was active from 1868 through 1968. It remained famous for the numbe ...
in Paris from 1945 to 1949, and then
etching
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at the Atelier Friedlaender, in Paris, from 1954 to 1957. She became a well-known engraver, working for the
Atelier Lacourière-Frélaut in Paris as of 1964. Her father, a known supporter of the
Vichy regime
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, died in 1943.
On 21 December 1952 she married the poet
Paul Celan, whom she had met in November 1951. The couple had two sons, Francois (b. 1953), who died immediately after birth, and Eric (b. 1955). As of 1967, however, she and Celan lived in separate homes. As a graphic artist, she illustrated the works of a number of well-known poets. Many of her works are linked to Celan's poems. She died in Paris, and was buried in the same grave as her husband, at
Cimetière parisien de Thiais
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History
The cemetery was opened in October 1929 and is ...
.
Illustrator
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Paul Celan, ''Atemkristall'', Brunidor, 1965.
* ''Portfolio VI'', Brunidor, 1967.
*
Paul Celan, ''Schwarzmaut'', Brunidor, 1969.
* Journal : Les Minuscules Episodes, 1974
* Martine Broda, ''Double'', La Répétition, 1978.
* Issue 4 of the revue ''Clivages''
References
Bibliography
* Paul Celan - Gisèle Celan-Lestrange, ''Correspondance (1951–1970)'', correspondence of the pair, with selection of Paul Celan's lettres to his son Eric, edited and commented by Bertrand Badiou, with the help of Eric Celan, Paris, éd. du Seuil, 2001, 2 volumes.
* John Felstiner ''Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew." New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, pp. 72–73.
* ''Katalog der Werke''
atalogue Raisonné of the artist's works edited by Ute Bruckinger and Klaus Bruckinger in collaboration with Eric Celan and Bertrand Badiou. Tübingen; Berlin: Wasmuth 2009
External links
Works by Gisèle Celan-Lestrange at "Amorosart"(page in
French)
Works by Gisèle Celan-Lestrange at Galerie Ditesheim in Neuchâtel, Switzerland(page in
French)
Works by Gisèle Celan-Lestrange at the Galerie Hus in Paris(page in
French and
English
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1927 births
1991 deaths
20th-century French women artists
Académie Julian alumni
Artists from Paris
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