1899
Henri Michaux, Belgian-French poet and painter (died 1984)
Henri Michaux, Belgian-French poet and painter (died 1984)
Henri Michaux, Belgian-French poet and painter (died 1984)
Henri Michaux
Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter
- Born
- 1899
Henri Michaux was a Belgian-born French experimental poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned for his strange, highly original poetry and prose, and also for his art: the Paris Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York had shows of his work in 1978. His autobiographical texts that chronicle his psychedelic experiments with LSD and mescaline include Miserable Miracle and The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones. He is recognised for his idiosyncratic travelogues and books of art criticism. Michaux is also known for his stories about Plume – "a peaceable man" – one of the most unenterprising heroes in literature, a character subject to many misfortunes.