Françoise Cachin

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Françoise Cachin

Françoise Cachin (born May 8, 1936 - February 5, 2011 ) was a French art historian .

Life

Françoise Cachin was born in 1936 to the doctor Charles Cachin and his wife Ginette (1913–1980), née Signac. Her grandfathers were the communist politician Marcel Cachin and the pointillist painter Paul Signac .

She studied art history with André Chastel at the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie (Institute for Art and Archeology) at the University of Paris . Since 1967 she has been a curator at the Musées de France (Association of French National Museums). From 1969 to 1978 she worked as a curator at the Musée National d'Art Moderne ; first in the Palais de Tokyo and later in the newly opened Center Georges Pompidou . In 1978 she moved to the planning staff of the new Musée d'Orsay , of which she became founding director in 1986. Here she was significantly involved in the organization of exhibitions on Édouard Manet , Paul Gauguin , Paul Cézanne and Georges Seurat . She stayed at the Musée d'Orsay until 1994, when the French Minister of Culture Jacques Toubon appointed her director of the Musées de France. In this position she was subordinate to 34 national art museums, including the Louvre , the Musée d'Orsay and the Palace of Versailles . In 2001 she retired and was appointed directeur honoraire des Musées de France .

Works (selection)

  • Félix Fénéon . Hermann, Paris 1966
  • Degas: etchings, lithographs, monotypes . Hirmer, Munich 1973. (together with Jean Adhémar / German edition)
  • Pissarro , exhibition catalog Paris, London, Boston. Arts Council of Great Britain, London 1980, ISBN 0-7287-0261-4 .
  • Van Gogh à Paris , exhibition catalog Paris. Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-7118-2159-5 .
  • Seurat: le rêve de l'art-science . coll. Découvertes Gallimard (nº 108), Gallimard, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-07-053117-1 .
  • Manet . DuMont, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7701-2791-9 . (German edition)
  • Cézanne , exhibition catalog Paris, London, Philadelphia. Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7118-3178-7 . (in cooperation with Isabelle Cahn)
  • Signac , catalog raisonné. Gallimard, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-07-011597-6 .
  • Méditerranée: de Courbet à Matisse , exhibition catalog Paris. Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-7118-4092-1 . (in cooperation with Monique Nonne)
  • Gauguin . Flammarion, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-08-021016-5 . (German edition)
  • European Art in the 19th Century, Volume 2: 1850-1905, Realism, Impressionism, Art Nouveau , Ars Antiqua - Great Epochs of World Art , Herder Verlag 1991

literature

  • Paul Josefowitz: Personality of the year: Francoise Cachin, Directeur des musees de France . Apollo Magazine No. 140, pages 14-17, London December 1994.
  • Denis Picard: Une directrice pour les Musees de France . Connaissance des Arts, No. 583, May 2001, 39.
  • Henri Loyrette : Mélanges en hommage à Françoise Cachin . Réunion des Musées Nationaux and Gallimard, Paris 2002, ISBN

2-07-076158-4.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2011/02/05/97001-20110205FILWWW00475-deces-de-francoise-cachin.php
  2. ↑ FAZ from February 8, 2011, page 31: Art with character -. On the death of Françoise Cachin
personal data
SURNAME Cachin, Françoise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1936
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 2011