Erik Desmazieres

Erik Desmazieres studied at Sciences Po and Special School of Architecture. Training under Jean Delpech is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Work by Erik Desmazieres is recorded in the collections of Prints and Photographs Department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Picker Art Gallery, Print Collection, Musea Brugge and Rijksmuseum. Distinctions recorded are Officer of Arts and Letters, Knight of the French Order of Academic Palms, Knight of the Legion of Honour and Officer of the National Order of Merit.

• Born — 1948 • Birthplace — Rabat, Morocco

Born in Morocco, he moved to Paris in 1967. He is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and studied printmaking at the evening classes of the City of Paris.

Desmazières received the Grand Prix of the City of Paris for engraving in 1978. He is president of the Société des peintres-graveurs français. In 2008 he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, where he was received in 2009 and which he presided in 2016. In 2020 he was appointed director of Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris. Desmazières provided etched illustrations for The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges.

Desmazières' work was exhibited at the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam in 2004, at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris in 2006, at the Musée Jenisch in 2007, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2009–2010, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in 2012, at the Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy in 2014.

Desmazières is a knight of the Legion of Honour (2016), an officer of the national order of Merit, a knight of the Ordre des Palmes académiques, and an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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