M'HAMED ISSIAKHEM

ART

M'hamed Issiakhem (in Kabyle: Mḥemmed Isyaxem), born June 17, 1928 in Taboudoucht in Algeria and died December 1, 1985 in Algiers, is an Algerian painter, representative of modern painting in Algeria.

He spent his childhood in Relizane, it was there that in 1943, he handled a grenade, picked up in an American military camp, the explosion of which caused the death of two of his sisters and a nephew.