Louis Bissinger was a French painter born in Lyon on 24 April 1899. He died in 1978 in Rillieux-la-Pape.
Louis Bissinger began his career as a musician, playing the cello to make a living. He moved to painting and started as soon as watercolors. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 for helping the French Resistance, and was deported to Germany. He used his painting skills to illustrate the atrocities of combination camp spirit in Buchenwald. He survived and organized an exhibition of his engagement time’s artworks taking into account he returned to France.
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