Patrick Waldberg

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Patrick Waldberg (born April 4, 1913 in Santa Monica , California , † October 1, 1985 in Paris , France ) was an American art historian and writer who was associated with Surrealism and lived mainly in France.

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Patrick Waldberg came to Paris at a young age, where he studied and in 1932 met members of the Surrealists such as Georges Bataille , Max Ernst , Yves Tanguy and Raymond Queneau .

From 1935 to 1937 he lived in Sweden, then in California, and returned to Paris at Bataille's request to work on the magazine and secret society Acéphale . After the outbreak of World War II , he returned to the United States in 1939, where he met surrealists such as André Breton again. As a soldier he took part in the invasion of Algiers ( Operation Torch ) in November 1942 and in Normandy ( Operation Overlord ) in June 1944 .

After the war, Waldberg settled again in Paris, where from 1948 his first art-critical essays were published, for example in Combat , which were primarily devoted to surrealism. He collected works of art by the artists he preferred and described in monographs, such as de Chirico , Ernst, Masson , Magritte and Tanguy. His only novel, La clé de cendre , contains illustrations by Ernst, Masson, Miró and Philippe Labarthe .

In 1959, Waldberg withdrew to the town of Seillans in the south of France . His second marriage was Line Jubelin, a woman from Seillans. In 1964 Max Ernst, whose first biography Waldberg had published in 1958, and Ernst's wife Dorothea Tanning also chose Seillans as their place of residence. In 1976 he co-founded the Éditions de la différence publishing house in Paris.

Patrick Waldberg died in Paris in 1985 and was buried in Seillans. The “Maison Waldberg” museum named after him contains more than 70 of the works by Ernst and Tanning created in Seillans and shows special exhibitions. Waldberg's extensive library is open to the public as a gift from the heirs in the municipal library.

Patrick Waldberg was the first husband of the sculptor Isabelle Waldberg (1911–1990) and father of the writer Michel Waldberg (1940–2012).

Publications (selection)

  • Max Ernst . Pauvert, Paris 1958
  • Max Ernst . Illustrated book, ed. by Patrick Waldberg, from d. Franz. By Günter Pössiger. Schuler, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7796-5134-3
  • Chemins du surréalisme . La Connaissance, Brussels 1962
  • Le Surréalisme . Skira, Geneva 1962
    • dt .: Surrealism , from d. Franz. By Ruth Henry. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1965
  • René Magritte , Éditions de Rache, Brussels 1965
  • Marino Marini . Tudor publishing, Stockport, Cheshire 1970
  • Yves Tanguy . Éditions de Rache, Brussels 1977, ISBN 2-80150-037-2
  • Tanguy, peinture . Éditions l'Autre Musée, Paris 1984 ISBN 2-72910-129-2
  • Patrick Waldberg / Isabelle Waldberg: Un amour acéphale: correspondance 1940–1949 , ed. by Michel Waldberg. Ed. de la Différence, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-7291-0864-5
  • La cle de cendre, roman . Ed. de la Différence, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7291-1240-5

Secondary literature

  • Adam Biro / René Passeron: Dictionnaire général du surréalisme et de ses environs , Office du Livre, Friborg (Switzerland) and Presses universitaires de France, Paris 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrick Waldberg in the BnF
  2. ↑ The above text is quoted from the web link "Les Amis de Max Ernst"
  3. ↑ "between getting bluer Far" ( Memento of 18 April 2014 Internet Archive ), lvr.de, accessed on April 17, 2014
  4. ↑ Maison Waldberg , guide-tourisme-france.com, accessed on February 13, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Waldberg, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Monica , California
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1985
Place of death Paris , France