Pierre Wiazemsky
Pierre Wiazemsky is a Dessinateur of press known under the name of Wiaz , born with Rome (Italy) the April 29th 1949. It is, by his mother, the grandson of François Mauriac and, by his father the heir to the title of prince Wiazemsky and count Levachov.
Born with Saint-Pétersbourg, right before the Revolution, this last had adopted French nationality and had known a life of international senior official. This is why Pierre and his sister, Anne Wiazemsky, undergo a wandering childhood between Rome, Montevideo, Geneva and Caracas.
From 1967, it is dependant familialement on Jean-Luc Godard, with which his/her sister Anne Wiazemsky, stage actor and novelist, is married until 1979. After secondary studies with Jeanson-with-Sailly, he studies the advertisement drawing and comes to the political caricature via the caricature pointillist. In 1968, it carries out its first drawings in the press rock'n'roll with Pop Music , Best and Rock & Folk . Married to Fabienne Servan-Schreiber in 1971, it enters to the Nouvel Observateur in 1972 whole while collaborating in the Nouvelles Arts persons , with Sciences and future , with the Cross and with Libération .
Its radical engagement shows through in its collaboration with Rouge (L.C.R.) or its chronicles of the occupation of Lip, gathered in the album the Outlaws of Palente (the international company of edition, 1974). Its collection While waiting for the great evening… (Denoël, 1976) is prefaced by Michel Foucault. With the Nouvel Observateur , it profits from a fixed space in which it is completely free while answering orders episodically aiming at illustrating files. Divorced in 1981, it Marie with Régine Deforges in 1984.
It receives the Grand Prix of humor cow to the International fair of the tuck pattern and humor of Saint-Just-the-Martel (High-Vienna) in 2001.
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