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Victor Simon

Victor Simon (1903 - 1976) was active/lived in France.  Victor Simon is known for Religioius figure and church symbol painting, theology themes, faces of Jesus.

Victor Simon, (1903–1976), France

Biography

Victor Simon (1903–1976) was born in the small commune of Bruay-en-Artois, in the Pas-de-Calais region of France. When he was a child, he witnessed a simulated procession along a Way of the Cross that affected him profoundly, leaving him with a strong religious sensibility. His nights were filled with fantastical visions in which holy temples jostled with sarcophagi. After he had finished school, he went to work in the mines with his father until he found a job in the accounts department, which he left in 1930 to open a bar-tobacconist’s. Simon took a serious interest in theology and philosophy and studied Christ’s doctrine assiduously, while at the same time attending experimental séances that explored the paranormal. In 1933, he received a message from the hereafter that galvanised him into producing his first monumental canvas, entitled Resurrection.

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