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Claude Cahun
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French artist (1894–1954)
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Claude Cahun, born Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob on 25 October 1894 in Nantes, was a French artist, photographer, writer, and resistance fighter. She worked in photography and literature and was associated with the surrealist movement. Cahun was Jewish and lesbian, and lived at various times in Nantes, Saint Brelade, and Paris, writing in French. Among the events recorded in her life was an attempted suicide.
Her work is held in the collections of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Tate, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her works include Aveux non avenus and Ecrits. She died in 1954 and was buried in Saint Brelade.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1894
- Died
- 1954
- Works
- 10
Top works
- Aveux non avenus
- 3ody configurations
- Confesiones inconfesas
- Ecrits
- Les Ecrits De Cahun
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Claude+Cahun">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Teleporting an unknown quantum state via dual classical and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen channels
· 1993 · cited 12,005x
- APE: Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution in R language
· 2004 · cited 10,957x
- IDF Diabetes Atlas: Global, regional and country-level diabetes prevalence estimates for 2021 and projections for 2045
· 2022 · cited 8,849x
- UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023
· 2022 · cited 6,757x
- UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021
· 2020 · cited 6,036x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob , ( 1894-10-25 ) 25 October 1894, Nantes , France
- Died
- 8 December 1954 (1954-12-08) (aged 60), Saint Helier , Jersey
- Resting place
- St Brelade's Church , 49°11′03″N 2°12′10″W / 49.1841°N 2.2029°W / 49.1841; -2.2029
- Known for
- Photography, writing, sculpture, collage
- Movement
- Surrealism
- Partner
- Marcel Moore (1909–1954)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lucy
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Nantes
- Place of death
- Saint Helier
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Field of work
- literature
- Genre
- self-portrait
- Movement
- surrealism
- Official website
- www.claudecahun.org
- Image
- Claude Cahun - I Am in Training Don't Kiss Me.jpg
- Work location
- Paris
- Residence
- Paris
- Significant event
- victim
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- Commons category
- Claude Cahun
- date of birth
- 1894-10-25
- date of death
- 1945-00-00
- birth name
- Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob
- name in native language
- Claude Cahun
- sexual orientation
- lesbianism
- place of burial
- Saint Brelade
- has works in the collection
- J. Paul Getty Museum
- writing language
- French
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- described at URL
- poetesses.blog4ever.com/cahun-claude-1894-1954
- Commons Creator page
- Claude Cahun
- unmarried partner
- Marcel Malherbe
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Claude Cahun, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Claude Cahun ( French: [klod kaœ̃]; born Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer.
Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. From 1920 onwards she began to appear publicly under this name. Her photographic work is characterised by self‑stagings, light reflections and shadows. The artist saw herself as a master of transformation and used photography to record her metamorphoses. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portraitist, who assumed a variety of performative personae.
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