Edouard Levé
Édouard Levé (born January 1, 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , † October 15, 2007 in Paris ) was a French writer , artist and photographer .
Life
Levé studied at the École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales . After graduating, he began painting in 1991. A trip to India in 1995 influenced him significantly, whereupon he gave up painting, turned to photography and burned almost all of his abstract works of art. Levé's first photo series was published in 1999 under the title Homonymes .
Levé's first literary work, Oeuvres , was published in France in 2002. Up until his death in 2007, a total of four prose and several photo volumes were published in France. Levé died of suicide on October 15, 2007 , ten days after handing the manuscript of the book Suicide to his publisher. By January 2014, two of his prose volumes had been translated into German.
Works in German
- Suicide. German by Claudia Hamm . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-88221-591-5 .
- Auto portrait . German by Claudia Hamm . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-068-2 .
Web links
- Levé at Perlentaucher.de
- Works by Levé at the Loevenbruck Gallery
- Leve at the publishing house Matthias & Seitz
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Boris Daireaux: PORTRAIT D'EDOUARD LEVE , Le Figaro, November 7, 2006, accessed January 30, 2014
- ↑ Jacques Morice: L'écrivain et photographe Edouard Levé est mort , Télérama, October 17, 2007, accessed January 30, 2014
- ^ Hugo Wilcken: Happiness, Sadness, Death. In: The Berlin Review of Books, March 8, 2010, accessed January 30, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Levé, Édouard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer, concept artist and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuilly-sur-Seine |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 2007 |
| Place of death | Paris |