Armand NAKACHE (born 11 January 1894 in Bône, Algeria) is a French painter, engraver and illustrator.
Armand Nakache spent his childhood in Algeria before arriving in Paris. He was a student at the Lycée Jean-Baptiste-Say and then studied art from 1909 to 1914. In 1914, he was mobilized and participated in the First World War in infantry; he finishes her as lieutenant. Injured several times, he was decorated with the cross of war and the Legion of Honour.
In 1919, he completed his training with two years of restoration studies with a specialist in museums in Florence. He then practiced all the disciplines of black and white: engraving, pencil, lithography, lavis. He first favors the purity of the drawing and the correctness of the tones.
In 1935 he discovered the expressionism of which he was influenced: he distorted the subjects to accentuate their power and exalted their colour. Armand Nakache cannot, however, be reduced to the expressionist school. He has constantly evolved because, he says, "creating is not mass production by changing the subject. It's doing something new every time.. Critic Guy Dornand defines him as the master of "fantastic expressionism".
As early as 1935, some of his works were purchased by the city of Paris.
He actively participated in several movements of painters and engravers. He participated in the creation of the Populist Salon in 1933 and became its secretary general. In 1935 he took part in the creation and presided over the Société de peinteurs-graveurs et lithographes indépendants "Le Trait" in Paris. He is an honorary member of the National Society of Italian engravers. He is one of the founding members of the Association of Painters of Their Time. Armand Nakache regularly exhibited his work in the Salons that this association organized from 1951 to 1982. He was president of the Society of Independent Artists from 1952 to 1964.
On October 11, 1960, he received the great medal of vermeil from the city of Paris.
His son, Francis Nakache and his wife, Suzanne, promoted Armand Nakache's work by organizing several exhibitions.
