Maurice Lemaître

Moïse Maurice Bismuth said Maurice Lemaître is an artist, writer and poet French libertarian. It is one of the figures of lettrism from the 1950s to today.

Maurice Lemaître prepares the School of Arts and Crafts and the Public Works. Came in 1948 to libertarian movement, there began a career as a journalist writing in the newspaper this movement. In 1949, he met Isidore Isou and is seduced by political ideas and enthusiasm créatrice.

In 1950, he joined the vanguard Lettrist Group. Since then, Maurice Lemaître has ceased to act and create in various fields explored by the Lettrist movement: poetry, theater, dance, novel, painting, photography, film, economics, psychopathology and psychotherapy.

Paintings, photographs and sculptures by Maurice Lemaître were shown in over one hundred exhibitions (including the Salon de Mai, the comparisons etc ... Salon), and in more than twenty personal clashes, both in France in Germany, Italy, England, the United States ... Such a work, which illustrates the Lettrist school hypergraphique, generate currents such as “pop art”, the “new realism”, the “ Conceptual Art “, the” happening “etc...

The contributions of Maurice Lemaître in the visual arts, in poetry and in the novel are so essential that it is quoted in modern studies on contemporary literature (Centre Pompidou, Hachette, Seghers, Larousse...), both in countries of the West than the East.