Georges Fontaine
Georges Jean Paul Fontaine (born August 8, 1900 in Paris , † 1969 ) was a French art historian .
Georges Fontaine, son of the industrialist Lucien Fontaine, attended the École Gerson and the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris and the Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly-sur-Seine . He then studied at the University of Paris and the École du Louvre .
From 1929 he worked for the Réunion des musées nationaux , first at the Musée national de Fontainebleau , from 1930 at the Louvre in Paris, first as an attaché , from 1934 as conservateur-adjoint and from 1942 to 1944 as Conservateur en chef (head) of the Département des objets d'art . He then became administrateur général des Mobilier national and the tapestry manufacture in Paris. In 1950 he became inspector général de l'enseignement des beaux-arts .
literature
- Qui est qui en France . Volume 11, 1969, p. 646.
- Homage to Charles Sterling. The primitif à Matisse . Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris 1992, p. 105.
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| SURNAME | Fontaine, Georges |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fontaine, Georges Jean Paul (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1969 |