Michel Jamar (Bar-le-Duc, 1911 — 1997) is a French painter, engraver, illustrator, sculptor and ceramist. He is especially notable for his woodcuts and bookplates.

Michel Jamar was born in Bar-le-Duc on February 9, 1911.

He became interested in illustration and wood engraving very early on, admiring those of L'Illustration and Images d’Épinal.

He became a student of Victor Prouvé at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy. He learned from him the practice of painting, sculpture, ceramics and engraving with a burin, but specialized in wood engraving, a technique with which “he gave birth to the most original works” .

He is also an important designer of bookplates and illustrations. His style is close to Roger Vieillard and Jean Émile Laboureur.

In 1981, Michel Jamar won the grand prize for wood engraving from the Academy of Fine Arts3. In 1992, on the occasion of a retrospective of Jacques Callot6, he received a special prize for “all of his engraved work inspired by J. Callot”.

In 1995, he donated numerous works to the municipal library of Nancy, consisting of around 300 drawings, prints and bookplates. The institution organized an exhibition of his works the same year.

Michel Jamar died on November 9, 1997.

In 2012, Michel Jamar's widow and son in turn donated his father's workshop funds to the Nancy municipal library. In addition to the works on paper and matrix (more than 5,300 drawings, 450 matrices, more than 1,000 prints and 1 linear meter of archives), there are the tools and his intaglio press, which has since been exhibited at the entrance to the library.