René Verbraeken
René Verbraeken (born June 2, 1927 , † September 11, 2009 ) was a Norwegian painter, art historian and Romanist .
life and work
René Guido Verbraeken attended the Norwegian Business School in Bergen and graduated in 1950. He went to France, studied art history at the Sorbonne and was head of the Norwegian department at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen from 1957 to 1959 . In 1959 he received his doctorate in art history with a thesis on Dutch landscape painting of the 17th century at the Sorbonne ( Doctorat d'Université ). Then he was a lecturer in Norwegian at Caen University .
From 1963 Verbraeken was a lecturer in French at the Bergen Commercial College, where he had studied, and from 1978 until his retirement in 1997 he was a professor there. In his research he combined art history and French language history (especially in the form of word history), which gave him a kind of unique selling point. As an artist (painter) he created numerous works that were the subject of exhibitions dedicated to him (especially in Norway). In 1996 he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of the Arts and Literature).
Publications
- Jacques-Louis David jugé par ses contemporains et par la postérité. Suivi de la liste des tableaux dont l'authenticité est garantie par les écrits de l'artiste, des documents de son époque ou par leur appartenance à ses descendants. Avec une bibliographie chronologique. L. Laget, Paris 1973. (Foreword by Louis Hautecoeur, 1884–1973)
- Clair-obscur. Histoire d'un mot. J. Laget, Nogent-le-Roi 1979.
- La peinture de paysage en Hollande au XVIIe siècle. Ed. du Panthéon, Paris 1995. (Originally dissertation)
- Termes de couleur et lexicographie artistique. Recueil d'essais suivi de quelques articles sur la critique d'art. Ed. du Panthéon, Paris 1997.
literature
- Albert Bartholoméus: René Verbraeken. Un norvégien à Paris . Nathan, Paris and Labor, Brussels 1984. (Foreword by Michel Faré, 1913–1985)
Web links
- Information on René Verbraeken in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Literature by and about René Verbraeken in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Mention on the website of the University of Caen
- Mention on the website of the Lycée Corneille in Rouen , French
- Obituary , Norwegian
- Another obituary , Norwegian
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Verbraeken, René |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Verbraeken, René Guido |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian painter and Romanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1927 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 2009 |