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Paul Nizon (born 19 December 1929 in Bern) is a Swiss art historian and writer. [1]
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Paul Nizon (born 19 December 1929 in Bern) is a Swiss art historian and writer. [1]
The son of a Russian chemist and a Swiss mother, [2] after leaving school he studied history of art, classical archaeology and German language and literature in the universities of Bern and Munich. He obtained his doctorate in 1957 with a thesis on Vincent van Gogh. He worked as an assistant at the Historisches Museum in Bern until 1959. In 1960, he was awarded a scholarship at the Swiss Institute in Rome. In 1961, he was a leading art critic of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. [2] Since 1962 Nizon, who has lived in Paris since 1977, [3] has been a freelance writer. He has held various guest lectureships, including in 1984 in the University of Frankfurt am Main and 1987 in Washington University in St. Louis. Nizon's estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern.
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