Pierre Rosenberg

Pierre Rosenberg ( born April 13, 1936 in Paris ) is a French art historian. He is a member of the Académie française and was for many years director of the Louvre in Paris. He is a connoisseur of French and Italian painting of the 17th and 18th century and has an international reputation as a specialist in the work of Nicolas Poussin.

Life

Pierre Rosenberg spent with his parents, who had to flee Paris because of the German occupation, his childhood in Lot- et- Garonne in the Gironde. After the war, the Lycée Charlemagne visited in Paris. The university degree in law and a diploma from the Ecole du Louvre was followed by a year of study at Yale University ( 1961-1962 ).

Rosenberg's career is closely linked to the Louvre. He began his career there in 1962 as an assistant in the painting department. The activity at the Louvre were interrupted by periods of study at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1977) and at the University of Cambridge (1986). From 1982 to 1984 he was president of the Société de l' histoire de l'art français and 1984 President of the Comité français d' histoire de l'art. From 1994 until his retirement in 2001, he was director of the Louvre.

In his time as director of the Louvre, initiated by François Mitterrand project of the " Grand Louvre ", with which the entire building complex was subjected to museum use falls. In this context, among others, the Galerie d' Apollon was restored and built the glass pyramid in the courtyard of the Louvre by architect IM Pei. Since 1989 she serves as the main entrance to the Musée du Louvre.

Rosenberg's priorities in research are drawing and painting in France and Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries. He has published critical historical catalogs of the complete works of Nicolas Poussin, Antoine Watteau and Jacques -Louis David.

1995 was chosen as the successor of Henri Gouthier to the Académie française. He is a corresponding member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Honorary Member of the Royal Academy in London, a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the Accademia di San Luca, both based in Rome, the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence, the Ateneo Veneto and the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, both in Venice and the Accademia Clementina in Bologna.

Rosenberg is married to Béatrice de Rothschild.

Exhibitions (selection)

Between 1976 and 1995 retrospectives of Chardin, Watteau, Pierre Subleyras, Fragonard, La Hyre and Poussin.

  • Sous le regard de Goethe. Edited by Pierre Rosenberg. Two centuries of French drawings in Weimar. Exhibition at the Musée Jacquemard -André in Paris., 2005.
  • Poussin and Nature. Museo de bellas artes exhibition, Bilabo. 2007/08.

Publications

Rosenberg was a founding member of the Revue de l'Art and co-editor of the journals Artibus et Historiae, Dialoghi, Museum Management and Curatorship and the Revue du Louvre.

  • Le français XVIIe. Paris 1976.
  • Tout L'Oeuvre de Watteau Peint Paris 1982. ISBN 2-08-010243-5
  • Watteau: 1684 - 1721 With Morgan Grasselli. . Berlin l985. ISBN 3-87584-144-1
  • Le Chat et la palette. Lee chat dans la peinture occidentale you XV.au XX. Siècle. With Élisabeth Foucart -Walter. Paris 1987
  • La Hyre Laurent. From 1606 to 1656. L' homme et l'oeuvre. Exhibition in Grenoble, Rennes. Bordeaux. Geneva 1988.
  • Catalogue raisonné of dessins de Poussin. With Louis -Antoine Prat. Milan 1995
  • You dessin au tableau: Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David, Ingres et. Paris 2001.
  • Jacques -Louis David 1748-1825. Catalogue rais. of dessins. With Louis -Antoine Prat. Milan 2002.
  • De Raphaël à la Révolution. Les relations entre la France et l' artistiques Italy. Milan 2005 ISBN 88-7624-006-3
  • Dictionnaire amoureux du Louvre. Paris 2007. ISBN 978-2-286-04003-1
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