Michel Moskovtchenko
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Sculptor
Illustrator
Michel Moskovtchenko | |
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 Self portrait of Moskovtchenko (2017) | |
| Born | 6 January 1935 |
| Died | 21 March 2025 (aged 90) Apt, France |
| Education | École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon |
| Occupations | Painter Sculptor Illustrator |
Michel Moskovtchenko (6 January 1935 – 21 March 2025) was a French painter, sculptor, illustrator, and engraver.[1]
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 to engrave his first linocuts.[2] After his studies at the Collège moderne et technique de Tarare, during which he attended the evening classes of Eugène Riboulet,[3] he created his first illustrations at the Établissements G. Corsin in Lyon.[4] At the same time, he took evening classes at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon under Pierre Pelloux and Antoine Chartres. From 1954 to 1956, he lived in the Netherlands, Germany, and Scandinavia before living in the Luberon until 1960.[5] In 1968, he moved to Gordes with his friend Hans Steffens and established his engraving workshop.[6] In 1975, he founded an intaglio workshop in Grenoble.[7]
Throughout his career, Moskovtchenko applied practices of "artistic geology".[8] 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,[9] Jean-Noël Vuarnet,[10] Jean-Pierre Geay,[11] Jean-Jacques Lévêque,[12] Bruno Marcenac,[13] Michèle Crozet,[14] Gérard Xuriguera,[15] Benezit,[16] and Jean-Jacques Larrant.[17]
Moskovtchenko died in Apt on 21 March 2025, at the age of 90.[18][19]