Christo et jeanne claude biography of donald

Although the Christo and Jeanne-Claude twofold signature only appeared in 1994, Christo Javašev and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon operated since the first time they met as a single whole fundamental subject, expressing more than 60 years of art work to the dimension of space and landscape.
They were born on the same day, June 13, 1935, she in Casablanca, he in Gabrovo, Bulgaria.

Jeanne-Claude, the daughter of Précilda Feichheimer, a future chief of staff in the French Liberation Army, had to face a troubled childhood in wartime Morocco, to then move to Switzerland and Tunis, where she studied Latin and Philosophy, and graduated in 1952.

Christo grew up in Communist Bulgaria, the nephew of the founder of Archaeological Institute of Sofia, and studied in that city at the local Academy of Fine Arts; as a painter, he had to serve as a public artist, painting mural oil portraits of Communist leaders and staging real landscape projects,