Norman Rosenthal

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Norman Rosenthal

Sir Norman Leon Rosenthal (born November 8, 1944 in Cambridge , Great Britain ) is a British art historian and curator .

Life

Rosenthal is one of the world's best known curators of international art exhibitions and a specialist in art from the 19th to the 21st century.

The son of Jewish refugees completed his school days - his father came from Slovakia , his mother Käthe Zucker († 1993) from Thuringia - at Westminster Grammar School , after which he studied history at the University of Leicester and received his doctorate there in 1966 . Study trips took him back to London and Berlin . He organized his first exhibition in Leicester in 1965.

Since 1977 Rosenthal has been the exhibition secretary at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He was u. a. responsible for the exhibitions “A New Spirit in Painting” (1981) and “Apocalypse: Beauty and Terror in Contemporary Art” (2000). In Berlin (West) he organized the exhibition " Zeitgeist " in 1982 together with Christos M. Joachimides and in 1993 with him " American Art of the 20th Century " . He is also the editor of art books.

In 2007, together with his colleague Ann Dumas , he organized the exhibition “Bonjour Russia” for the museum kunst palast in Düsseldorf and the Royal Academy of Arts with works of art from four Russian museums, the Pushkin Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow , the Hermitage and the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg . The exhibition, which was financed by the energy company E.ON , ran from September 15, 2007 to January 6, 2008 in the museum kunst palast in Düsseldorf.

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SURNAME Rosenthal, Norman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenthal, Norman Leon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British art historian and curator
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge , UK