Denise René

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Denise René (actually: Denise Bleibtreu ; * June 1913 in Paris ; † July 9, 2012 ) was a French art dealer .

Life

Denise René's parents came from Hungary. On July 13, 1944, she opened her gallery on the 3rd floor in the Rue de la Boétie in Paris only for a short time, only to start with the first exhibition of the works of Victor Vasarely in November of the same year . It was their aim to bring great artists - even those who had fallen into oblivion - from earlier times, who had dealt with abstract art and its forerunners, into a “dialogue of the generations” with young artists of the avant-garde .

In the first five years she curated exhibitions with already established artists such as Max Ernst , Piet Mondrian , Alexander Calder , Marcel Duchamp and Hans Arp . She contrasted them with young artists such as Jean Dubuffet , Robert Jacobsen , Richard Mortensen , Victor Vasarely, Jean Tinguely , Hugo Demarco and Yaacov Agam . At the beginning of 1947 she had great success with an exhibition of Picasso drawings. The exhibition, originally planned from January 23rd to February 18th, was extended to March 3rd due to its great success. For this reason, the date had to be pasted over to the poster announcing this exhibition. In 1955 she showed an exhibition of kinetic art that attracted worldwide attention in art circles and made Denise René a center of the avant-garde. Le Mouvement presented work by Agam, Pol Bury , Calder, Duchamps Rotary Demisphere (1925), Jacobsen, Mortensen, Soto, Tinguely and Vasarely from April 6-30 . A yellow manifesto with the keywords color. Light. Move. Time was distributed as a leaflet. Robert Breer edited a flip book , there was an accompanying program of avant-garde film outside the exhibition.

Another focus of her gallery work was on artists from Eastern Europe, who were only sparsely represented in Paris and often went unnoticed. The Hungarian Lajos Kassák , the Pole Henryk Stażewski or the Russian Kasimir Severinovich Malevich , like many other artists from Eastern Europe , owed their international development to the gallery owner. In the same way, she gave young Latin American artists such as the Venezuelan Jesús Rafael Soto space for their art. Denise René belonged to the circle of friends and acquaintances of the art collector and patron Theodor Ahrenberg .

In 2001 Denise René herself was honored with a large exhibition, which was shown under the title Denise René - une galerie dans l'aventure de l'art abstrait 1945–1978 in the gallery of the Museé national d'art modern in the Center Georges Pompidou . The European gallery association Fédération des Associations Européennes des Galeries d'Art FEAGA awarded her in 2006 (together with Ellen de Bruijne) the European gallery prize FEAGA Award . She was the bearer of the National Order of the Legion of Honor .

literature

  • Carte blanche to Denise René . Paris: Paris Art Center, 1984. French / English edition with articles by Ante Glibota, Dore Ashton, Gilles Plalzy, GC Argan and others
  • From constructivism to kinetics 1917 to 1967. Ed .: Hans Mayer . Krefeld: Self-published by Denise René Gallery, 1967.
  • Gallery Denise René. Mes anneés 50 . [Abner, Adrian-Nilson, Agam, Ahrenberg and others]. Paris: Ed. Galérie Denise René 1988.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Denise René, l'abstraction perd sa reine , Le Figaro, July 9, 2012
personal data
SURNAME René, Denise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bleibtreu, Denise (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH June 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2012