Staffan Ahrenberg

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Staffan Hjalmar Theodor Ahrenberg (born September 27, 1957 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish publisher and film producer. He is the owner of the French art and literature publisher Cahiers d'Art and an art collector.

life and career

Born as the second child of businessman Theodor Ahrenberg (1912–89) and Ulla Ahrenberg (née Frisell), Ahrenberg grew up in Stockholm and Chexbres , Switzerland. As a child he got to know modern art through his father's extensive collection. The collection put together between the late 1940s and 1980s included works by u. a. Pablo Picasso , Henri Matisse , Marc Chagall , Le Corbusier , Olle Bærtling , Sam Francis , Mark Tobey and Lucio Fontana . The most important exhibits in the collection included a. the two versions of Matisse's Apollo (1953), Picasso's Femme nue au fauteuil à bascule (1956) and Chagall's Les mariés sous le baldaquin (1949). In 1962 the Ahrenberg family moved to Chexbres; until 1977 there was a studio for visiting artists such as u. a. Christo , Tadeusz Kantor , Enrico Baj , Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle .

In 1975 Ahrenberg met the producer of Superman (1978, Darst. Marlon Brando) Alexander Salkind (1921–97). Ahrenberg completed a three-year apprenticeship with Salkind before moving to Los Angeles to start his own career as a producer. Ahrenberg's films include: a. Networked - Johnny Mnemonic (1995, directed by Robert Longo, Darst. Keanu Reeves), Total Eclipse - The Affair of Rimbaud and Verlaine (1995, directed by Agnieszka Holland, Darst. Leonardo DiCaprio), The Quiet American (2002, directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Michael Caine) and Summer Love (2006, directed by Piotr Uklański , starring Bogusław Linda).

In 2011 Ahrenberg acquired the publishing house Cahiers d'Art, which had been founded in 1926 by the art historian and publisher Christian Zervos (1889–1970). Cahiers d'Art is based at 14 Rue du Dragon, Paris, and also runs a gallery and publishes a magazine of the same name. On October 18, 2012, Ahrenberg published the first issue of the magazine since 1960. This issue is dedicated to Ellsworth Kelly, co-editors were Hans Ulrich Obrist and Sam Keller. Later editions are devoted to important living artists such as u. a. Rosemarie Trockel , Hiroshi Sugimoto and Gabriel Orozco . Cahiers d'Art books published by Ahrenberg include Calder by Matter (2012), Ellsworth Kelly: Catalog Raisonné of Paintings, Reliefs, and Sculpture. Vol. 1, 1940–1953 (2015), Thomas Schütte: Watercolors for Robert Walser and Donald Young, 2011–2012 (2016), as well as the newly published, 33-volume catalog raisonné Pablo Picasso par Christian Zervos ( "Le Zervos" ), originally published between 1932 and 1978.

In addition, Ahrenberg works as an exhibition coordinator z. B. “Hiroshi Sugimoto” (2014) and “Miró” (2018) in the Galerie Cahiers d'Art, “Le Corbusier. The Secrets of Creativity: Between Painting and Architecture ”(2012) in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, and“ Moment - Le Corbusier's Secret Laboratory ”(2013) in the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

Art collection

Ahrenberg has been collecting modern and contemporary art since 1977. His first acquisitions were geometric works by z. B. Auguste Herbin and Josef Albers . The current collection contains exhibits by, among others, Pablo Picasso , Henri Matisse , Wassily Kandinsky , Le Corbusier , Richard Serra , Robert Longo , Wolfgang Tillmans , Cildo Meireles , Jenny Holzer , Martin Kippenberger and Adrián Villar Rojas .

Filmography

  • 1988: Journey back in time (producer)
  • 1989: Lobster Man from Mars (executive producer)
  • 1991: Zandalee - The Sixth Commandment (Executive Producer)
  • 1992: Obsession (executive producer)
  • 1992: Jersey Girl (producer)
  • 1995: Total Eclipse - The Rimbaud and Verlaine Affair , 1995 (producer)
  • 1995: Networked - Johnny Mnemonic (Executive Producer)
  • 1997: 9½ weeks in Paris (producer)
  • 2006: Summer Love (producer)
  • 2002: The Quiet American (Producer)
  • 2017: Konstsamlaren och katastrofen (Actor)

Publications

  • Le Corbusier's Secret Laboratory. From Painting to Architecture , Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2013 (co-editor and contribution)
  • Cahiers d'Art. Picasso In the Studio , Special Edition 2015 (Interview with Robert Longo)
  • Living with Picasso, Matisse and Christo: Theodor Ahrenberg and His Collections , Thames & Hudson, London, 2018 (contribution)
  • Ett liv med Matisse, Picasso och Christo - Theodor Ahrenberg och hans samlingar , Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing, Stockholm, 2018 (contribution)
  • Cahiers d'Art. Miró , September 2018 (Interview with Miquel Barceló)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Living with Picasso, Matisse and Christo: Theodor Ahrenberg and His Collections , Thames & Hudson, London, 2018
  2. ^ Sotheby's Magazine , "The New Cahiers d'Art," June 10, 2013
  3. ^ Societe Generale Private Banking "Staffan Ahrenberg, collector and editor of Cahiers d'Art"
  4. ^ Staffan Ahrenberg, Internet Movie Database
  5. ^ Claudine Colin Communication, “(Re) lancement de la revue Cahiers d'Art” , October 18, 2012
  6. ^ Artsy, "How a Swedish Movie Producer Turned Art Collector Revived the Parisian Institution Cahiers d'Art," April 13, 2015
  7. ↑ https://www.cahiersdart.com/revue
  8. ↑ https://www.cahiersdart.com/books
  9. ^ The New York Times , "A Tome to Rival the Artist Himself," May 22, 2013
  10. ↑ Interview , “The Only Picasso Anything You'll Ever Need,” December 8, 2013
  11. ^ "Le Corbusier. The Secrets of Creativity: Between Painting and Architecture " , Pushkin Museum, Moscow (2012)
  12. ^ "Moment - Le Corbusier's Secret Laboratory" , Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2013)
  13. ^ Sotheby's Magazine , "The New Cahiers d'Art," June 10, 2013
  14. ↑ Staffan Ahrenberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Ahrenberg, Staffan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ahrenberg, Staffan Hjalmar Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish publisher and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm