Bernard Lamarche-Vadel


Bernard Lamarche-Vadel was a French writer, poet, art critic and collector.

Life

The son of a veterinarian, self-taught, his tastes for art and literature earned him a paternal anathema. At 19 years he met whose name he joined to his. A graduate from the École pratique des hautes études in art sociology, he subsequently taught at the Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne University and then at ICART in 1979. A poet and short stories writer, Bernard Lamarche-Vadel composed a work of art critic in the 1970s and founded the magazine Artistes. He also organized numerous exhibitions
He committed suicide in 2000 aged 50, in his castle of La Rongère.
His photographic collection was stored at in Chalon-sur-Saône.
An exhibition devoted to his work of art critic was presented in 2009 by the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

Works