Norman Rosenthal

Sir Norman Leon Rosenthal ( born November 8, 1944 in Cambridge, United Kingdom ) is a British art historian and curator.

Life

Rosenthal is one of the world's most famous curators of international art exhibitions and a specialist in the art of the 19th to 21st centuries.

His schooling was completed by the son of Jewish refugees - his father was born in Slovakia, and his mother Kathe sugar († 1993) from Thuringia - in Westminster Grammar School, after which he studied history at the University of Leicester, where he was a PhD in 1966. Study trips led him back to London and Berlin. He organized in 1965 in Leicester His first exhibition.

Since 1977, Rosenthal has worked as a secretary exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He was, inter alia, responsible for the exhibitions " A new spirit in painting " (1981) and " Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art" ( 2000). In Berlin (West) he organized in 1982 in collaboration with Christos M. Joachimides the exhibition " Zeitgeist". He is also publisher of art books.

In 2007 he organized together with his colleague Ann Dumas for the museum kunst palace in Dusseldorf and the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition " Bonjour Russia" of art from four Russian museums, the Pushkin Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Hermitage and the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. The exhibition, which was sponsored by the energy company E.ON, ran from 15 September 2007 to 6 January 2008 at the museum kunst palace in Dusseldorf.

Honors

• Prix ​​Eliette von Karajan '94