Yvan Goll

Yvan Goll
Goll in 1932
Goll in 1932
BornIssac Lang
(1891-03-29)29 March 1891
Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Lorraine, France (today Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Vosges department, France)
Died27 February 1950(1950-02-27) (aged 58)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France
OccupationPoet, Librettist, Playwright
CitizenshipGerman; American from 1945
Educationstudied jurisprudence at the University of Strasbourg, 1912–14; University of Lausanne, 1915–18
Period1914–1950
Literary movementExpressionism, Surrealism
SpouseClaire Studer née Aischmann (1921–1950)

Yvan Goll (also written Iwan Goll, Ivan Goll; born Isaac Lang; 29 March 1891 – 27 February 1950) was a French-German poet who was bilingual and wrote in both French and German. He had close ties to both German expressionism and to French surrealism.