Germain Bazin

Germain Bazin (* September 24, 1901 in Suresnes, today: Département Hauts -de -Seine, France; † 2 May 1990 in Paris) was a French art historian, museum curator, professor and author.

Life

The son of an engineer Bazin studied art history at the Sorbonne in Paris, among others, Henri Focillon and Émile Mâle. In 1934 he went to the Université Libre de Bruxelles and in 1936 called to the Musée du Louvre in Paris, to work in painting and drawing department as conservator. During World War II he served in the infantry from 1939 to 1940 and rose to captain. From 1951 to 1976 he was head of paintings and drawings of the Louvre.

Teaching activities

Bazin was from 1971 to 1976 professor at York University in Toronto, Canada. He also taught from 1941 at the École du Louvre.

Honors and Awards

Writings

• DuMont history of horticulture. Comet, Frechen 1999, ISBN 3-933366-01-1.
• Dictionnaire des styles. Édition Aimery Somogy, Paris, 1987, ISBN 2-85056-185-1.
• Histoire de l' histoire de l'art, de nos jours à Vasari. A. Michel, Paris, 1986, ISBN 2-226-02787-4.
• Reprint: Corot, Hachette, Paris, 1973; Original edition: Éditions Pierre Tisné, Paris, 1942. German: Corot, translated by Wolfgang Jördens. Wolfgang Kruger Verlag, Berlin, 1946.

• German: Louvre, translated by Alfred P. Zeller. Bertelsmann Lesering, Stuttgart 1975.

• German: art of all times and nations, translated by Hans Feger. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1957.

• New edition: Le Mont Saint Michel. Archéologie de l' origine à nos jours, Hacker Art Books, New York 1978, ISBN 0-87817-190-8.

• Paul Gaugin or Classicism through revolt, pp. VIII - XVI, " Paul Gaugin ", Haus der Kunst, Munich 1960