Denise René

Denise René ( actually: Denise Bleibtreu, born June 1913 in Paris; † 9 July 2012) was a French art dealer.

Life

The parents of Denise René came from Hungary. On July 13, 1944, she opened her gallery on the 3rd floor in the Rue de la Boétie in Paris for a short time to start in November of the same year with the first exhibition of works of Victor Vasarely. Their claim to great artist was - guessed in oblivion - of earlier times who had dealt with the abstract art and their precursors, to bring in a "dialogue of generations " with young avant-garde artists.

In the first five years, she curated exhibitions with time already established artists such as Max Ernst, Piet Mondrian, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp and Hans Arp. You she faced young artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Robert Jacobsen, Richard Mortensen, Victor Vasarely, Jean Tinguely, Hugo Demarco or Yaacov Agam. In 1955 she exhibited in art circles worldwide acclaimed exhibition of kinetic art that made Denise René became a center of avant-garde. Le Mouvement presented from 6 to 30 April works by Agam, Pol Bury, Calder, Duchamp's Rotary Demisphere (1925 ), Jacobsen, Mortensen, Soto, Tinguely and Vasarely. A yellow manifest with the key words color. Light. Movement. Time was distributed as a leaflet. Robert Breer edited a flip book, there was an accompanying exhibition outside the avant-garde film.

Another focus of her art gallery, she put on artists from Eastern Europe who were only sparsely represented in Paris and was often overlooked. The Hungarian Lajos Kassák, the Pole Henryk Stażewski or the Russian Kasimir Malevich Sewerinowitsch owed ​​like many other artists from Eastern Europe their international development of the gallery. In the same way they were young Latin American artists such as the Venezuelan Jesús Rafael Soto space for their art. Denise René belonged to the circle of friends and acquaintances of the art collector and patron Theodor Ahren mountain.

2001 Denise René was even honored with a major exhibition, under the title of Denise René - at the gallery of the Musée National d'Art Moderne was shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou gallery une dans l' aventure de l'art abstrait 1945-1978. The European Federation of Associations Européennes Gallery Association des Galeries d'Art FEAGA gave her in 2006 (along with Ellen de Bruijne ) the European galleries Prize FEAGA Award. She was awarded the National Order of the Legion of Honour.