Pierre Klossowski (August 9, 1905—August 12, 2001) was a French writer, translator and artist. He was the eldest son of the artists Erich Klossowski and Baladine Klossowska, and his younger brother was the painter Balthus.
Born in Paris, Pierre Klossowski was the older brother of the artist Balthazar Klossowski, better known as Balthus. Their parents were the art historian Erich Klossowski and the painter Baladine Klossowska. His father, Erich Kl...
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Pierre Klossowski (August 9, 1905—August 12, 2001) was a French writer, translator and artist. He was the eldest son of the artists Erich Klossowski and Baladine Klossowska, and his younger brother was the painter Balthus.
Born in Paris, Pierre Klossowski was the older brother of the artist Balthazar Klossowski, better known as Balthus. Their parents were the art historian Erich Klossowski and the painter Baladine Klossowska. His father, Erich Klossowski, was a German-educated Polish noble of the Rola coat of arms. His mother, Baladine Klossowska, was born as Elisabeth Dorothea Spiro in Breslau, Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland). Although Klossowska's younger son Balthus denied their Jewish heritage, it is considered that she was born into an Orthodox Jewish family with Belarussian origins.
When he was 18, Pierre was André Gide's secretary and worked on the drafts of Les faux-monnayeurs for him.
Pierre Klossowski wrote full length volumes on the Marquis de Sade and Friedrich Nietzsche, a...
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