Jean Carzou

Jean Carzou (b. 1907 Aleppo, Syria – August 12, 2000 Marsac-sur-l’Isle, Dordogne), born Garnik Zouloumian, was a French-Armenian artist. Jean arrived in Paris in 1924 to study architecture. He started working as a theater decorator but he then quickly realized he preferred drawing and painting. In 1938, more than a hundred exhibitions of his works were organized in Paris, in province and in foreign countries. In 1949, he received the famous Hallmark prize.

A Carzou museum exists in the town of Dinard (Brittany). In 1952, he created costumes and sceneries for "Les Indes Galantes" of Rameau at the Opéra de Paris . He continued with "Le Loup" (1953) for "Les Ballets" of Roland Petit, Giselle (1954) and Athalie (1955) at the Opéra and "La Comédie française".

Member of the Institut de France.

He was the father of Jean-Marie Carzou.