Alexandre Barbera-Ivanoff
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Biography
Alexandre Barbera-Ivanoff studied painting from the age of 12 in private workshop, with the painters Christian Welter, Gerard Di-Maccio, then Jean BertholleJean Bertholle
Jean Bertholle was a French painter of the new Paris School....
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The compulsory military service gave him a unique experiment : Painter in the Earth Army.
He carried out with success frescoes, in particular in the Palace of King Mohammed VI in Marrakech
Marrakech
Marrakech or Marrakesh , known as the "Ochre city", is the most important former imperial city in Morocco's history...
(Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
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On September 9, 2005 in Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo is a walled port city in Brittany in northwestern France on the English Channel. It is a sub-prefecture of the Ille-et-Vilaine.-Demographics:The population can increase to up to 200,000 in the summer tourist season...
, France, Alexandre Barberà-Ivanoff made public his Proclamation on Essentialisme Artistique.
He réalised portraits of characters as corsairs, for example this one of Jean-Marie Le Pen
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Jean-Marie Le Pen is a French far right-wing and nationalist politician who is founder and former president of the Front National party. Le Pen has run for the French presidency five times, most notably in 2002, when in a surprise upset he came second, polling more votes in the first round than...
, in 2006.
His main work was exposed in June 2010, in the European Parliament
European Parliament
The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...
of Strasbourg
Strasbourg
Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...
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Alexandre Barbera-Ivanoff is grandson and expert of the Russian painter Serge Ivanoff
Serge Ivanoff
Serge Petrovitch Ivanoff is a Russian painter.- Biography :The son of a family of Moscovite merchants, Serge Ivanoff was artistic from a young age. On his parents' move to St. Petersburg he took the opportunity for further studies, and contact with Europe...
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Illustrated books
- Angenard Capitaine de corsaire, ISBN 978-2-84265-491-7
- Athanase Postel Corsaire et aventurier, ISBN 978-2-84265-525-9
- Flibustiers aux Antilles, ISBN 978-2-84265-498-6
- La vida de los piratas, ISBN 978-84-9892-059-8
- Mes décadanses, Jean-Paul Chayrigues de Olmetta, ISBN 978-2-916727-21-9