Acting
Pierre Daix
- Born
- May 24, 1922 · Aged 92
- Died
- Nov 2, 2014
- Place of birth
- Ivry-sur-Seine, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
- Gender
- Male
- Movie credits
- 3
- TV credits
- 1
- Directing credits
- 1
Biography
Pierre Georges Daix (24 May 1922 – 2 November 2014) was a French journalist, writer and art historian. He was a friend and biographer of Pablo Picasso. As a young man, Daix was an ardent Stalinist. He joined the French Communist Party at the age of 17 in 1939 when the Communist Party was banned for supporting the German-Soviet pact. In July 1940, he created a student club, the Centre laïque des auberges de la jeunesse (Claj), which served as a legal screen for the clandestine Union of Communist Students. When David Rousset (1912-1997) spoke out about Stalin's vast system of prison camps,…
