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Michel Degand, born in 1934 in Loos-lez-Lille (Nord), is a French artist, cardboard maker, painter, plastic artist and sculptor. Michel Degand was very young when his grandfather, an art glazier and conductor, gave him a taste for music and drawing, and made him choose the profession of designer lithographer. At the age of 17, he returned to La Voix du Nord to learn the profession of photoengraver, and at the same time followed general aesthetics courses at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lille. he is interested in the renewal of tapestry and will produce no less than 250 tapestries woven from more than one hundred cartoons mainly in the Pinton Workshops in Felletin, but also at the Manufacture des Gobelins, at the Academy of Tournai and in various workshops in Calais and Portugal. Numerous stays in the United States5 enabled him to exhibit in prestigious galleries, San Francisco, Chicago, etc. A retrospective8 of his works will be given to him in 1979 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille.
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Michel Degand, born in 1934 in Loos-lez-Lille (Nord), is a French artist, cardboard maker, painter, plastic artist and sculptor. Michel Degand was very young when his grandfather, an art glazier and conductor, gave him a taste for music and drawing, and made him choose the profession of designer lithographer. At the age of 17, he returned to La Voix du Nord to learn the profession of photoengraver, and at the same time followed general aesthetics courses at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lille. he is interested in the renewal of tapestry and will produce no less than 250 tapestries woven from more than one hundred cartoons mainly in the Pinton Workshops in Felletin, but also at the Manufacture des Gobelins, at the Academy of Tournai and in various workshops in Calais and Portugal. Numerous stays in the United States5 enabled him to exhibit in prestigious galleries, San Francisco, Chicago, etc. A retrospective8 of his works will be given to him in 1979 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille.

When was Michel Degand born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1934