Louis Réau

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Louis Réau (born January 1, 1881 in Poitiers , † June 10, 1961 in Paris ) was a French art historian . It is considered to have shaped the perception of German art in France.

Life

Louis Réau studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris . He also learned Russian at the Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales . With these two qualifications, Réau was appointed director of the Institut français in Saint Petersburg and Vienna . The establishment of an Institut français in Saint Petersburg was viewed with suspicion by the Sorbonne, because it saw this institute as competition in the teaching of the French language. Louis Réau as an art historian, however, intended to use learning the language only as an introduction to getting to know French culture. In his book Histoire de l'expansion de l'art Français he described the spread of French art in Europe and America in the 17th century.

His Iconographie de l'art Chrétien from the years 1955–1959 and various monographs by German artists such as Peter Vischer the Elder and Matthias Grünewald reflect his expertise in the field of medieval art. One of the first academic books on Russian art to be published in French was L'Art Russe from 1922.

In 1947 Louis Réau was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts .

Fonts (selection)

Réau - Les Primitifs allemands
  • Histoire de l'expansion de l'art Français
  • L'Art Français sur le Rhin au XVIIIe siècle , Paris, 1908
  • Iconographie de l'art Chrétien. 3 volumes, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1955–59
  • Histoire du vandalisme en France. 2 volumes, Paris, 1959
  • L'Europe français au siècle des Lumières. 1938
  • Histoire de l'art russe. 2 volumes
    • L'Art russe, des origines à Pierre le Grand
    • L'art russe de Pierre le Grand à nos jours
  • Histoire de l'art roumain.
  • Les Primitifs allemands , 1910
  • Peter Vischer et la sculpture franconienne du XIVe au XVIe siècle , Paris, 1909
  • Mathias Grünewald et le Retable de Colmar , 1920
  • Cologne and Saint-Pétersbourg in the series Les Villes d'art celebres , Paris, 1908
  • Dictionnaire polyglotte des termes d'art et d'archéologie
  • Une dynastie de sculpteurs au XVIIe siècle: Les Lemoynes , Paris, 1927
  • with G. Lundberg and R.-A. Refuses: L'Art français dans les pays du Nord et de l'est de l'Europe , 1932

literature

  • Henri Temerson: Biographies des principales personnalités françaises décédées au cours de l'année, Hachette, Paris, 1962, p. 184
  • Isabelle Dubois: Louis Réau. Médiateur malgré lui "Les Primitifs allemands" (1910) in: Alexandre Kostka, Françoise Lucbert: Distance and Appropriation - Relations artistiques entre la France et l'Allemagne 1870-1945 , Akademie Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3050040610
  • W. Eugene Kleinbauer: The Dictionary of Art ; Modern Perspectives in Western Art History: An Anthology of 20th-Century Writings on the Visual Arts. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, p. 56

estate

List of bequests ( memento of October 13, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 29 kB) at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olga Medvedkova: «Scientifique» OU «intellectuel»? Louis Réau et la creation de l'Institut français de Saint-Pétersbourg . In: Cahiers du monde russe , vol. 43, no. 2–3, 2002, pp. 411–422, accessed on June 5, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Réau, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Poitiers , France
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1961
Place of death Paris , France