Albert Robin

Albert Robin,
photography by Alphonse Liebert

Édouard Charles Albert Robin (born September 19, 1847 in Dijon , † September 24, 1928 in Castel-Montigny ) was a French doctor , art collector and patron .

Life

Albert Robin, originally from Dijon, was one of the most respected doctors in Paris at the end of the 19th century. He specialized in the internal organs of the stomach, liver and kidneys and was a renowned histologist . In 1883 he was appointed professor of the Faculté de médecine of the old University of Paris , in 1887 he was elected to the Académie de Médecine . He published various treatises on medical therapy.

His famous patients included the writers Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam , Paul Bourget and Stéphane Mallarmé . Octave Mirbeau dedicated his novel Dingo, published in 1913, to the doctor in gratitude "Au Professeur Albert Robin". In addition, the medic Adrien Proust , the father of the writer Marcel Proust , belonged to his circle of friends. Robin frequented the art collector Marguerite Charpentier's salon and was friends with the courtesans Méry Laurent and Liane de Pougy . For some time he lived at 4 rue de Saint-Pétersbourg, in the same house as his friend, painter Édouard Manet . Robin later moved into an apartment on Rue Beaujon in Paris.

In addition to literature, Robin was particularly interested in painting. He built up a collection of Impressionist art and acquired several works by Édouard Manet. These included, for example, the paintings Nana (today Hamburger Kunsthalle ), Before the Mirror ( Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ), The Viennese Irma Brunner ( Musée d'Orsay ) and Singer in the Café-concert (private collection). While he was selling parts of the art collection again, he bequeathed a core part to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in his hometown of Dijon. These included a work each by Ary Scheffer and Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun as well as the paintings Saint-Mammès-sur-le-Loing by Alfred Sisley and Étretat, la Porte d'Aval by Claude Monet . Edouard Manet also made the painting Gartenallee in Rueil , the pastels Méry Laurent with a black hat and Modèle du Bar aux Folies – Bergère (Suzon) as well as several drawings. After Albert Robin's death in 1928, his son André Robin handed this collection over to the museum, which has officially held these pictures since 1930. Later, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon acquired a painting Portrait Albert Robin by Marcellin Desboutin .

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  Édouard Manet:
  Nana , 1877

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  Édouard Manet:
  Mery Laurent with a black hat , 1882

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  Claude Monet:
  Étretat, la Porte d'Aval , around 1885

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  Alfred Sisley:
  Saint-Mammès sur le Loing , 1886

Publications (selection)

• Des troubles oculaires dans les maladies de l'encéphale , Paris 1880
• Des affections cérébrales consécutives aux lésions non traumatiques du rocher et de l'appareil auditif , 1883
• La technique de l'exploration gastrique: Le diagnostic et le traitement des dyspepsies , J. Rueff, Paris 1900
• Les retentissements des maladies de l'estomac sur les divers organes: Les réactions stomacales des maladies locales et générales , J. Rueff, Paris 1901
• Les maladies organiques de l'estomac , J. Rueff, Paris 1901
• Index Médical des principales Stations Thermales et Climatiques de France , J. Gainche, Paris 1903

literature

• Édouard Rist: 25 portraits de médecins français, 1900-1950 . Masson, Paris 1955.
• Emmanuel Starcky (ed.), Sophie Jugie (ed.): L'art des collections, bicentenaire du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, du siècle des Lumieres à l'aube du nouveau millénaire . Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon 2000, ISBN 2-911404-62-9 .