Pierre Rosenberg

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Pierre Max Rosenberg (born April 13, 1936 in Paris ) is a French art historian . He is a member of the Académie française and was director of the Louvre in Paris for many years . He is considered a connoisseur of French and Italian painting of the 17th and 18th centuries and enjoys an international reputation as a specialist in the work of Nicolas Poussin .

Life

Pierre Rosenberg spent his childhood in the Lot-et-Garonne and Gironde departments with his parents, who had to flee Paris because of the German occupation . After the war he attended the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris. A law degree and a diploma from the École du Louvre was followed by a one-year study visit to Yale University (1961–1962).

Rosenberg's professional career is closely linked to the Louvre. He began his career there in 1962 as an assistant in the painting department. His work at the Louvre was interrupted by stays at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1977) and at Cambridge University (1986). From 1982 to 1984 he was President of the Société de l'histoire de l'art français and in 1984 President of the Comité français d'histoire de l'art . From 1994 until his retirement in 2001 he was director of the Louvre.

The Louvre at night, February 2007

During his time as director of the Louvre, François Mitterrand initiated the “Grand Louvre” project, with which the entire building complex was turned into a museum. In this context, among other things, the Galerie d'Apollon was restored and the glass pyramid in the courtyard of the Louvre was built by the architect Ieoh Ming Pei . Since 1989 it has served as the main entrance to the Musée du Louvre.

Rosenberg's research focuses on drawing and painting in France and Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries. He has published historical-critical catalogs on the complete works of Nicolas Poussin , Antoine Watteau and Jacques-Louis David .

In 1995 he was elected to the Académie française to succeed Henri Gouhier . He is a corresponding member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1990), member of the American Philosophical Society (since 1997), honorary member of the Royal Academy in London, member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the Accademia di San Luca , both based in Rome, the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence, the Ateneo Veneto and the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti , both in Venice, and the Accademia Clementina in Bologna.

Rosenberg is married to Béatrice de Rothschild.

Exhibitions (selection)

Between 1976 and 1995 retrospectives by Chardin , Watteau , Pierre Subleyras , Fragonard , La Hyre and Poussin .

  • Sous le regard de Goethe. Edited by Pierre Rosenberg. Two centuries of French drawing in Weimar. Exhibition at the Musée Jacquemard-André in Paris. 2005.
  • Poussin and Nature. Exhibition Museo de bellas artes, Bilbao. 2007/08.

Publications

Rosenberg was a founding member of the Revue de l'Art and co-editor of the magazines Artibus et Historiae , Dialoghi , Museum Management and Curatorship and the Revue du Louvre .

  • Le XVIIe français. Paris 1976
  • Tout l'œuvre peint de Watteau. Paris 1982, ISBN 2-08-010243-5
  • Watteau: 1684-1721. With Morgan Grasselli. Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-87584-144-1
  • Le chat et la palette. Le chat dans la peinture occidentale du XV. au XX. siècle. With Elisabeth Foucart-Walter. Paris 1987
  • Laurent La Hyre. 1606-1656. L'homme et l'œuvre. Exhibition in Grenoble, Rennes, Bordeaux, Geneva 1988
  • Catalog raisonné des dessins de Poussin. With Louis-Antoine Prat. Milan 1995
  • You dessin au tableau: Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David et Ingres. Paris 2001
  • Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825. Catalog rais. of the design. With Louis-Antoine Prat. Milan 2002
  • De Raphaël à la Révolution. Les relations artistiques entre la France et l'Italie. Milan 2005, ISBN 88-7624-006-3
  • Dictionnaire amoureux du Louvre. Plon, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-286-04003-1

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personal data
SURNAME Rosenberg, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenberg, Pierre Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French art historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris