Germain Bazin

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Germain Bazin (born September 24, 1901 in Suresnes , today: Département Hauts-de-Seine , France , † May 2, 1990 in Paris ) was a French art historian , museum curator, university lecturer and book author.

Life

Bazin was born in 1901 as the son of engineers Charles Bazin and Jeanne Laurence Mounier-Pouthot. He studied art history at the Sorbonne in Paris under Henri Focillon and Émile Mâle , among others , and museology at the École du Louvre. From 1928 he worked in the graphics department of the Paris École des Beaux Arts, which in 1937 led to his appointment as curator in the graphics department of the Louvre. His supervisor René Huyghe awakened his interest and awareness of the importance of restoration, which Bazin constantly sought to professionalize during his time at the Louvre. In 1934 he was also a professor at the Université Libre de Bruxellesbeen appointed; he should hold the position for over 30 years.

In World War II he served from 1939 to 1940 in the infantry and rose to captain on in the following years, he was, along with René Huyghe and Jacques Jaujard , involved in the works of the French museums during the occupation before the Nazis to hide. At the same time, in 1941, he was appointed professor of museology at the École du Louvre . During the war years he published works on such different eras and artists as Hans Memling (1939), Fra Angelico (1941) and Camille Corot (1942). As one of the first European art historians, Bazin became interested in the Brazilian Baroque from 1945. In the following years he published two fundamental works on religious architecture (1956/58) and on the sculptor Aleijadinho (1963).

In 1947 Bazin married Suzanne Comtesse Heller Bielotzerkowka. After managing the graphics department of the Louvre Museum for a few years, he was appointed chief curator for painting and graphics in 1951, and in 1965 he was appointed chief curator of the restoration workshops of the Musées nationaux , which had been created especially for him. He advocated a new hanging of the works that should reflect the breadth of the collection of objects from all over the world. He has also published numerous works on various topics, including a history of art of all times and peoples (1953), as well as monographs on impressionism (1947) and the art of baroque and rococo (1964). He also spoke about historiography and museology in publications and lectures in Europe and America.

In 1970 he retired from teaching at the École du Louvre, but taught from 1971 to 1976 as a professor at York University in Toronto , Canada . Before his death in 1990, at the age of 88, he worked on a catalog raisonné by the artist Théodore Géricault , which was published posthumously in 1997.

honors and awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Le Mont Saint-Michel . Foreword by Marcel Aubert , Auguste Picard, Paris 1935.
    • New edition: Le Mont Saint Michel. Archeologie de l'origine à nos jours , Hacker Art Books, New York 1978, ISBN 0-87817-190-8 .
  • Cent trente chefs d'œvres de l'art français du moyen age au XXe siècle . Arts et métiers graphiques, Paris 1937.
  • Memling . Pierre Tisné, Paris 1939.
  • La France en guerre . Together with Claude-Joseph Gignoux , Georges-Henri Rivière and Bernard Champigneulle . Foreword by André Siegfried , Éditions Plon, Paris 1940.
  • Fra Angelico . Hypérion, Paris 1941.
  • Corot . Pierre Tisné, Paris 1942 (new edition: Hachette, Paris, 1973).
    • German by Wolfgang Jördens: Corot . Wolfgang Krüger Verlag, Berlin 1946.
  • L'époque impressioniste . Pierre Tisné, Paris 1947.
  • Les grands maîtres hollandais. With the collaboration of Suzanne Bazin. F. Nathan, Paris 1950.
  • Histoire de l'art, de la préhistoire à nos jours . Charles Massin, Paris 1953.
    • German by Hans Fegers: Art of all times and peoples . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1957.
  • L'architecture religieuse baroque au Brésil , 2 volumes. Museu de Arte de São Paulo , São Paulo / Paris 1956/1958.
  • Trésors de l'impressionisme au Louvre . Editions Aimery Somogny, Paris 1958.
  • The bouquet of flowers: paintings by great masters . Translated by Paul Baudisch. Kindler, Munich 1960.
  • Musée de l'Ermitage: the grands maîtres de la peinture . Cercle d'art, Paris 1958.
    • German: The great masters of painting at the Hermitage (14th – 18th centuries) . Henschel, (East) Berlin 1960.
  • Paul Gaugin or Classicism through Revolt . Exhibition catalog. House of Art, Munich 1960.
  • Aleijadinho et la sculpture baroque au Brésil. Le Temps, Paris 1963.
  • Le message de l'absolu, de l'aube au crépuscule des images . Hachette, Paris 1964.
  • Baroque et rococo , Thames & Hudson, London 1964.
    • German by Hans Hildenbrand: The art of the baroque and rococo . Droemer / Knaur, Munich 1969.
  • Le Temps des musées . Editions Desour, 1967.
  • The Impressionist Museum in the Louvre , 1968.
  • Histoire de l'avant-garde en peinture de XIIIe au XXe siècle . Hachette, Paris 1969.
  • The palais de la foi: le monde des monastères baroques. Volume 2: I talie, Pays Ibériques, France . Office du livre, Friborg 1980.
  • The palais de la foi: le monde des monastères baroques. Volume 1: Autriche, Allemagne et Suisse, Belgique, Russie orthodoxe . Office du livre, Friborg 1981.
  • The impressionists: creators of modern painting . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1981.
  • Histoire de l'histoire de l'art: de Vasari à nos jours . A. Michel, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-226-02787-4 .
  • Dictionnaire des styles . Édition Aimery Somogy, Paris, 1987, ISBN 2-85056-185-1 .
  • Paradeisos or L'art du jardin . Chêne, Paris 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gilberte Émile-Mâle: Germain Bazin (1901–1990). In: sfiic.free.fr. Retrieved May 2, 2016 .
  2. ^ Marie-Noëlle Tranchant: Le Louvre ou l'art de résister. In: Le Figaro. Retrieved May 2, 2016 .
  3. ^ Judith Benhamou-Huet: Germain Bazin le découvreur. In: LExpress.fr. November 11, 1999, accessed May 2, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Marcel Marceau: NOTICE SUR LA VIE ET ​​LES TRAVAUX DE M. Germain BAZIN. In: www.academie-des-beaux-arts.fr. October 27, 1993, accessed May 2, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Bazin, Germain. (No longer available online.) In: dictionaryofarthistorians.org. Archived from the original on April 10, 2016 ; accessed on May 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dictionaryofarthistorians.org


personal data
SURNAME Bazin, Germain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French art historian and museum curator
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Suresnes , France
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1990
Place of death Paris , France