Agnes Humbert

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Agnès Humbert (born October 12, 1894 in Dieppe ; † September 19, 1963 in Paris ) was a French art historian and member of a resistance group within the French Resistance named after the Musée de l'Homme .

Life

Humbert spent most of her youth in Paris, where she also attended painting and drawing courses. In 1916 she married the painter GH Sabbagh. During her two sons' education, she wrote stories for children, illustrated a collection of Albert Samain's poems and was also able to exhibit her own works.

After 1929 she obtained her diploma as an art historian at the Sorbonne , then the diploma of the École du Louvre and the diploma of philosophy. Employed at the Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires , she made a name for herself after 1936 through art reviews and lectures, including broadcasts on Radio Paris and a monograph on Max Lingner in collaboration with Henri Barbusse .

After the occupation of Paris by the Wehrmacht , Agnès Humbert belonged to the "Musée de l'Homme" resistance group. After her work at the state museums ended in October 1940, she organized the distribution of the "Résistance" newspaper and opportunities for threatened citizens to flee. In early 1941 the resistance group was denounced, its members arrested, and Agnès Humbert was taken to a prison in Fresnes. The detained male members were sentenced in 1942 to death and shot the female as forced laborers to Germany deported where Agnès Humbert first in Anrath , later in Hövelhof was interned.

After the war ended in 1945, Agnès Humbert was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor and received the Médaille de la Résistance and the Croix de guerre . In her further professional activity, she first became an assistant and later a curator at the Musée d'Art Moderne . In 1959 she moved to Rouen as a conservator . She also continued to work on publications on French art and edited international exhibition catalogs. Outside of the professional audience she became known through her report “Notre Guerre” published in 1946 on the resistance group of the “Musée de l'Homme”.

See also

Publications (selection)

  • Notre was. Souvenirs de Résistance, Paris 1940–41 . 1946, 2nd edition, introduction by Julien Blanc, Tallandier, 2004
    • English translation: Resistance. A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France , translated by Barbara Mellor, Bloomsbury 2008, ISBN 1-59691-559-5
  • French painting from the beginning to impressionism. Minerva-Verlag (1949) and Club der Buchfreunde, Saarbrücken 1949.
  • The Nabis and their epoch 1888–1900 . VEB Verlag der Kunst 1967.

literature

  • The Nabis and their epoch 1888–1900. VEB Verlag der Kunst 1967, p. 96 f. ( Fundus series 19).

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personal data
SURNAME Humbert, Agnes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French art historian and member of the Resistance
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Dieppe (Seine-Maritime)
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1963
Place of death Paris