Henri Focillon

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Henri Focillon (born September 7, 1881 in Dijon , † March 3, 1943 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was a French art historian and university professor.

biography

Henri Focillon was the son of the French artist Victor Louis Focillon. He studied art history at the Sorbonne with Henry Lemonnier and received his doctorate in 1918. He then became professor of art history at the University of Lyon as the successor to the art historian Émile Bertaux and director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. In 1921, he married Marguerite Castell.

Four years later he moved to the Sorbonne, succeeding Émile Mâles . From 1938 he taught at the Collège de France in Paris. From 1937 he was visiting professor at Yale University in the United States, where he stayed after his emigration in 1940. He was a founding member and director of the newly founded École libre des hautes Études in New York in 1942 .

Focillon's thematic spectrum encompasses both medieval art and the medium of printmaking. He also dealt with non-European art, such as the Japanese artist Hokusai and Buddhist art .

His students included u. a. Jurgis Baltrušaitis , André Chastel , René Huyghe , Germain Bazin and George Kubler . The French bourse focillon , which is awarded annually, is named after him.

Fonts (selection)

  • Benvenuto Cellini , Paris: Laurens, 1911.
  • Hokusaï , Paris: Éd. Felix Alcan, 1914.
  • Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) , Paris: Laurens, 1918.
  • Technique et sentiment. Études sur l'art moderne , Paris: Laurens, 1919. Follow-up edition: Paris: Société de propagation des livres d'art, 1932
  • Le Musee de Lyon: Peintures. Paris: Laurens, 1924.
  • L'Art bouddhique
  • Raphaël , Paris: Éd. Nilsson, 1926.
  • L'art des sculpteurs romans: Recherches sur l'histoire des formes, Paris: Leroux, 1931.
  • Vie des formes (1934) New edition: Vie des formes: suivi de Éloge de la main. Paris: Pr. Univ. de France, 1988.
    • Italian translation: Vita delle forme , Milano: Minuziano, 1945.
    • German translation: The life of forms. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-95829-589-6 .
  • Éloge de la main [1]
  • Guide de l'exposition d'art populaire baltique: Estonia, Latvia, Lituanie ; Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro, Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, 1935. Paris: Éd. Step, 1935.
  • Art d'Occident: Le Moyen Âge roman et gothique , Paris: Colin, 1938.
  • Peintures romanes des églises de France, Paris: Hartmann, 1938.
  • Moyen Âge: survivances et réveils , New York: Brentano's, 1943.
  • Edited posthumously by Hélène and Jurgis Baltrušaitis:
  • Piero della Francesca: avec 52 figures dans le texte et 28 planches hors texte. Paris: Colin, 1952.
  • L'an mil , Paris: Colin, 1952.

Literature (selection)

  • Kerstin Thomas : Expressive things: art theories of Henri Focillon and Meyer Schapiro reconsidered. In: Speculative art histories. Edinburgh: University Press, Edinburgh, 2017, pp. 113–129.
  • Ranieri Varese et al. a. [Ed.]: Focillon e l'Italia. Atti del convegno, Ferrara, April 16-17, 2004. Le Lettere, Firenze 2007.
  • Pierre Wat [Ed]: Henri Focillon. Ed. Kimé [u. a.], Paris, 2007.
  • Willibald Sauerländer: En face des barbaren et à l'écart des dévots: l 'humanisme médiéval d'Henri Focillon. In: Romanesque art. 2, 2004. 850-867, 890.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mélanie Wolfe: Henri Focillon. In: La République des Lettres. Retrieved August 16, 2018 (French).
  2. ^ Comité français d'histoire de l'art (CFHA) - Bourse Focillon. Retrieved November 2, 2018 (French).
  3. ^ Henri Focillon: Hokusai. In: BNF. Retrieved August 16, 2018 (French).
  4. ^ Henri Focillon: Technique et sentiment, études sur l'art modern. Bnf, 1919, accessed August 17, 2018 (French).
  5. ^ Henri Focillon: Raphaël. Retrieved August 17, 2018 (French).
  6. ^ Henri Focillon: Vie des Formes (digitized BnF). Retrieved August 17, 2018 (French).
  7. ^ Aubert, Marcel: Focillon (Henri). Piero della Francesca (Collection Henri Focillon, I) . In: Bulletin Monumental . tape 110 , no. 1 , 1952 ( persee.fr [accessed November 2, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Focillon, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Dijon
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1943
Place of death New Haven , Connecticut