Fabrice Hergott

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Fabrice Hergott (* 1961 in Sarreguemines ) is a French art historian , museum director, curator and author of art historical writings.

Life

Fabrice Hergott grew up bilingual in the French - German border area in Saargemünd in Lorraine . Although he initially enrolled in Egyptology, he studied art history at the University of Strasbourg .

Museum career

From 1985 to 1995 he worked as a curator for contemporary art at the Center Georges Pompidou as well as his work at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne and the management of the "Maison de la Culture de Saint-Étienne", which he held for two years held.

During this time he curated and was responsible for exhibitions such as 1992 with Georges Rouault , 1994 with Joseph Beuys and 1996 with Francis Bacon .

His curations on new and more recent German art should be emphasized. He tried to find a counterpart among the French artists for the German artists who were then regarded as powerful. In 1987 he organized the exhibition " Vincent Corpet , Marc Desgrandchamps , Pierre Moignard " at the Center Pompidou .

From 2000 to 2006 he was in charge of the “Musées de Strasbourg” and the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg (MAMCS).

Notable exhibitions under his direction were among others in 2003 “Hyperréalismes USA 1965-1975” (curators Jean-Claude Lebensztejn and Patrick Javault), or in 2005 the two exhibitions “ Arthur Cravan , 1887-1918” (curator: Emmanuel Guigon) and “ Xavier Veilhan  : Le plein emploi ” .

In 2006 he was appointed by the then Parisian mayor Bertrand Delanoë as the new director of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in the Palais de Tokyo , succeeding Suzanne Pagé , who had held this position since 1988.

Hergott is the author and co-author of numerous art historical writings and contributions, especially for art catalogs by contemporary artists.

The art theft in 2010 fell during his term of office .

Fonts (selection)

  • Fabrice Hergott: Rouault . Translated from the French by Karin Boden. Bongers, Recklinghausen 1993, ISBN 3-7647-0442-X
  • Fabrice Hergott (Ed.): Joseph Beuys  : films et vidéos. Edition du Center Pompidou, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-85850-773-2 . (Exhibition catalog: Center Georges Pompidou, 6 July to 3 October 1994. Organizer: Kunsthaus Zürich . Filmography pp. 73–79).
  • Burkhard Riemschneider (Ed.), Roberto Ohrt (Contributor), Fabrice Hergott (Contributor): Albert Oehlen . Taschen, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-8228-8930-X .
  • Fabrice Hergott: Baselitz . Cercle d'Art, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-7022-0470-8 ( Repères contemporains ).
  • Fabrice Hergott (Ed.): Francis Bacon . Center Georges Pompidou, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-85850-881-X . (Exhibition catalog: Paris, Center national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, June 27 to October 14, 1996; Munich, Haus der Kunst , November 4, 1996 to January 31, 1997).
  • Werner Spies (ed.), Fabrice Hergott (contributor): Max Ernst - sculptures, houses, landscapes. DuMont, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-7701-4164-4 . (Exhibition in the Musée National d'Art Moderne / Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, May 5 to July 27, 1998, and in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, September 5 to November 29, 1998).
  • Götz Adriani (Hrsg.), Fabrice Hergott (Hrsg.): Kandinsky  : Major works from the Center Georges Pompidou Paris. Kunsthalle Tübingen, April 2 to June 27, 1999. DuMont, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7701-4991-2 .
  • Fabrice Hergott: Max Kaminski . Wienand, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-87909-636-8 .
  • Fabrice Hergott (preface): John Heartfield , 1891–1968. Edition des Musées de Strasbourg, Strasbourg 2006, ISBN 2-35125-032-X . (Exhibition catalog: John Heartfield. Photomontages politiques 1930-1938 , Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, April 7 - July 23, 2006. Curators: Emmanuel Guigon, Franck Knoery).

Web links

Individual evidence

Unless otherwise stated, information on the museum career is taken from the interview with Roxana Azimi, 2006.

  1. ^ A b Roxana Azimi: Fabrice Hergott directeur des musées de Strasbourg. In: Journal des Arts. No. 230, February 3, 2006 (French). Retrieved July 26, 2010.
  2. ^ Bertrand Delanoë: Fabrice Hergott nommé directeur du Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris. City of Paris, press release of July 13, 2006 (French) Retrieved July 26, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Hergott, Fabrice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarreguemines