Marcel Brion

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Marcel Brion (born November 21, 1895 in Marseille , † October 23, 1984 in Paris ) was a French novelist , essayist and art critic. He was elected to the Académie française in 1964 .

Life

Marcel Brion was born in Marseille . At the Thiers high school he had classmates Marcel Pagnol and Albert Cohen . After completing his secondary studies at the Champittet College, he went to Switzerland . Then followed studies of law in Aix-en-Provence . As a lawyer with the Marseille Bar between 1920 and 1924, he gave up his legal career very early in order to move towards literature.

He came from a family of Provencal origin, and Irish is the name of Brion, which is a French for O'Brion, and this dual cultural heritage is undoubtedly felt in his love for foreign cultures and his taste for other countries - his need to escape expressed himself while crossing the world. His own universality, but also his literary and artistic creativity, were nourished by this pronounced thirst for knowledge.

Marcel Brion was in charge of the "Foreign Literature" section of the French daily Le Monde in Paris for twenty years . He contributed to bringing well-known European authors such as Rainer Maria Rilke , James Joyce and Dino Buzzati closer to the French public . In this regard, Marcel Schneider commented : “With Marcel Brion, it was Europe [...]. He knew seven of the major languages spoken in the Occident , and he knew them as a talent discoverer. He could choose, and he was not mistaken ”(freely quoted from: Le Figaro , July 1, 1994).

When he died in Paris in 1984 , he left behind more than a hundred works.

As for his artistic activity, Brion was particularly interested in a number of works of art ( Renaissance ), for example: Botticelli (1932); Giotto (1927); Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci (1954).

In his biographies he emphasized different personalities, such as Friedrich II. Von Hohenstaufen (French: 1948), Machiavelli (1927) and Rudyard Kipling (1929), also: Romantic Germany, 4 volumes; Goethe ; Robert Schumann .

A number of the works are available from Albin Michel , Brion's current publisher. He is less known to the general public in France today.

Some works, e.g. B. About Goethe, were published as translations by German-language publishers.

Works

  • Le théâtre des esprits. Friborg 1941
  • Robert Schumann and the world of romanticism. Stuttgart 1955
  • Paul Klee . [Gütersloh] 1956
  • History of abstract art. Stuttgart 1956
  • Mozart's master operas. Erlenbach 1956
  • Machiavelli and his time. Düsseldorf 1957
  • Masterpieces of modern painting. Hamburg 1957
  • Translator Theodor Rocholl: It happened on the 1002nd night. Novel. Heinrich Scheffler, Frankfurt 1958
  • The early cultures of the world. Cologne 1959
  • Translated by Theodor Rocholl : The green castle "La Folie". Novel. Scheffler, Frankfurt 1959
  • Art of romance. Munich 1960
  • Albrecht Dürer . Man and his work. Paris 1960
  • German painting. The history of German panel painting from its beginnings to the present. Stuttgart 1961
  • Beyond reality. Fantastic art. Olten 1962
  • Treasury of Venice . Splendor and grandeur of the lagoon republic. Frankfurt 1963
  • The Medici . A Florentine family. Wiesbaden 1970
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . Poet prince and polymath. Munich 1982 ISBN 3-453-55092-7
  • And every breath for you. Goethe and love. Vienna 1982 ISBN 3-552-03407-2
  • The city in the sand. Novel. Frankfurt 1986 ISBN 3-596-22707-0

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personal data
SURNAME Brion, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1984
Place of death Paris