Gabriel Pomerand

Gabriel Pomerand (c. 1926–1972) was a French poet, artist and a co-founder of lettrism.^[3] He was born in Paris and moved to Alsace at a young age, and then on to Marseille where he worked as a student for the Resistance. His mother was deported to Auschwitz, yet he survived.

Gabriel Pomerand
Born	(1926-06-13)June 13, 1926[1] Paris
Died	July 1972 (aged 46)[2] Corsica
Occupation	Poet, artist
Nationality	French
Genre	Lettrism

After the war, he moved back to Paris. Here he met Isidore Isou, with whom he founded the lettrist movement.^[3] He wrote Saint Ghetto of the Loans, a book of "politically charged urban rebuses", in 1950.^[4] Isou expelled him from the movement in 1956, after which he turned to opium.^[3] He committed suicide in 1972 in Corsica.