Daniel Arasse

Daniel Arasse (born November 5, 1944 in Oran , Algeria , † December 14, 2003 in Paris ) was a French art historian .

Life

Arasse graduated from the École normal supérieure in 1965 . He then took up art history studies at the Sorbonne , with a particular focus on the Italian Renaissance . André Chastel was one of his academic teachers. After the cultural revolution in Paris in May 1968 , he taught modern art history from the 15th to 19th centuries at the Sorbonne University (Paris IV), beginning in 1969, and from 1972 at the Sorbonne University (Paris I-Pantheon-Sorbonne).

In 1972 he became a member of the École française de Rome for two years . Between 1982 and 1989 he was director of the Institut Français de Florence . In 1993 he became director of the renowned École des hautes études en sciences sociales, EHESS in Paris. At the age of 59 he succumbed to a degenerative disease.

In 2001 Arasse published an internationally acclaimed large monograph on Anselm Kiefer with translations into German and English.

Fonts (selection)

• L'Univers de Léonard de Vinci (Les Carnets de dessins). Scepel, Paris 1978.
• L'Homme en jeu. Génies de la Renaissance Italienne . 1980.
• L'Ambition de Vermeer . 1993
  • Vermeer's ambition. Translation of Hella Faust. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1996, ISBN 3-364-00327-0 .
• On n'y voit rien. Descriptions . Ed. Denoël, Paris 2000.

German: Have a look! What can be discovered in pictures. DuMont, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8321-7138-X .

• Anselm Kiefer. 2001.

German: Anselm Kiefer. Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-8296-0014-3 .

English: Anselm Kiefer. Thames & Hudson. London 2014, ISBN 978-0-500-29161-0 .

• My encounters with Leonardo, Raffael & Co. DuMont, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8321-7673-X .
• Images of the devil. Matthes and Seitz, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-88221-588-5 .
• The guillotine. The power of the machine and the spectacle of justice . Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-499-55496-8 .
• with Andreas Tönnesmann : European mannerism. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-42755-3 .
• Leonardo da Vinci . Translated from the French by Stefan Barmann and Regina Schmidt-Ott. DuMont, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8321-7150-9 .
• Leonard de Vinci . Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-7541-0581-1 . (Postum publ.)

literature

• Claudia Blümle: Daniel Arasse in Germany. In: Régards croisés. No. 1, 2013, pp. 18–31.
• Arasse, Daniel. In: Dictionary of Art Historians. (dictionaryofarthistorians.org)
• Andreas Platthaus : That's how it goes with the devil. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine. August 31, 2012. (faz.net)