Michel Moskovtchenko

Michel Moskovtchenko
Self portrait of Moskovtchenko (2017)
Born6 January 1935
Tarare, France
Died21 March 2025(2025-03-21) (aged 90)
Apt, France
EducationÉcole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon
OccupationsPainter
sculptor
illustrator

Michel Moskovtchenko (6 January 1935 – 21 March 2025) was a French painter, sculptor, illustrator, and engraver.

Biography

Born in Tarare on 6 January 1935, Moskovtchenko's father emigrated from Russia in 1920 and his mother was a French woman who had graduated from Springfield College in the United States. While in primary school, he used the Freinet method [fr] to engrave his first linocuts. After his studies at the Collège moderne et technique de Tarare, during which he attended the evening classes of Eugène Riboulet, he created his first illustrations at the Établissements G. Corsin in Lyon. At the same time, he took evening classes at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon under Pierre Pelloux [fr] and Antoine Chartres [fr]. From 1954 to 1956, he lived in the Netherlands, Germany, and Scandinavia before living in the Luberon until 1960. In 1968, he moved to Gordes with his friend Hans Steffens [fr] and established his engraving workshop. In 1975, he founded an intaglio workshop in Grenoble.

Throughout his career, Moskovtchenko applied practices of "artistic geology". He was considered one of the leaders of the New Subjectivity movement by Jean Clair. He received artistic praise from the likes of Hanns Theodor Flemming [de], Jean-Noël Vuarnet [fr], Jean-Pierre Geay [fr], Jean-Jacques Lévêque [fr], Bruno Marcenac, Michèle Crozet, Gérard Xuriguera [fr], Benezit, and Jean-Jacques Larrant.

Moskovtchenko died in Apt on 21 March 2025, at the age of 90.

Works

Paintings

Illustrations

Mixed techniques

Engravings

Sculptures

Intaglio

Awards

References

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  7. ↑ Gérôme, Elyane (1978). Moskovtchenko (in French). Lyon: Éditions du Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon.
  8. ↑ "Exposition de Michel Moskovtchenko (Nature et forme) et de Christophe Licoppe (Instants)". Out.be (in French). Archived from the original on 2 March 2016.
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  10. ↑ Vuarnet, Jean-Noël (1972). Michel Moskovtchenko (in French). Paris: Éditions de la Galerie Le Soleil dans la tête.
  11. ↑ Geay, Jean-Pierre (1973). Michel Moskovtchenko (in French). Privas: Éditions de la ville de Privas.
  12. ↑ Lévêque, Jean-Jacques (1974). Moskovtchenko (in French). Lyon: Imprimeurs réunis.
  13. ↑ Marcenac, Bruno (1974). Moskovtchenko (in French). Lyon: Imprimeurs réunis.
  14. ↑ Crozet, Michèle (1975). Moskovtchenko (in French). Grenoble: Éditions de la Maison de la Culture de Grenoble. p. 3.
  15. ↑ Xuriguera, Gérard (1983). Regard sur la peinture contemporaine - La création picturale de 1945 à nos jours (in French). Arted.
  16. 1 2 Dictionnaire Bénézit (in French). Vol. 9. Gründ. 1999. p. 890.
  17. ↑ Larrant, Jean-Jacques (2001). Ravins érotiques (in French). Villerbaunne: U.R.D.L.A.
  18. ↑ "legrasquentin92". Instagram (in French). 25 March 2025.
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