Rene Huyghe

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Rene Huyghe (Arras, May 3rd 1906 - Paris, February 5th 1997) is a writer French. He was preserving Louvre, Psychologue and Philosophe of art, professor to the Collège de France and French academician.

Biography

Rene Huyghe studies the Philosophie and the Esthétique with the Sorbonne and the school of Louvre.

As of 1930, it is named preserving assistant of Paintings to the museum of Louvre, then, conservative as a chief and professor at the school of Louvre, to thirty and one years. It founds and directs the reviews the Love of Art and Quadrige .

It is one of the first to carry out films on the Art, including one “Rubens” preceded with Biennial of Venice and bases the International federation of film on Article.

During the Second world war, it organizes the evacuation of the tables of Louvre in nonoccupied zone and their protection until the Release. In parallel, it belongs to resistance in the staff of the Veny groups.

In 1950, it is elected with the Collège de France and occupies the pulpit of psychology of the visual arts. In 1966, it receives, the European price Erasme with $the Hague. It is defined as psychologist and philosopher of Article In 1974, it is named director of the Musée Jacquemart-Andre.

He chairs the international commission of experts of UNESCO for the safeguard of Venice and the artistic Council of the Museums of France. He is the father of the writer François-Bernard Huyghe.

French Academy

He is elected with the French Academy, the June 3rd 1960, with armchair 5 of Robert Kemp.

Decorations

List principal works

  • History of the contemporary art (Alcan, 1935)

  • Cézanne (Plon, 1936)
  • universe of Watteau , in Helene Adhémar, Watteau: its life, its work. Catalog paintings and illustration (P. Tisné, 1950)
  • the Painting of Occident Hundred masterpieces of the museum of Louvre (New French editions, 1952)
  • Dialog with visible the (Flammarion, 1955)
  • Art and the Man , Volume I (direction) (Larousse, 1957) Volume II (1958) Volume III (1961)
  • Van Gogh (Flammarion, 1958)
  • Art and the Man (Flammarion, 1960)
  • Delacroix or the solitary Combat (Hatchet, 1964)
  • Powers of the image (Flammarion, 1965)
  • Direction and destiny of art (Flammarion, 1967)
  • Art and the Modern world (direction with Jean Rudel) 2 volumes (Larousse, 1970)
  • Forms and Forces (Flammarion, 1971)
  • the Changing of Reality, French painting at the XIXe century, impressionism, symbolism (Flammarion, 1974)
  • what I believe (Grasset, 1974)
  • the night calls the dawn, dialogs East-occident on the contemporary crisis (with Daisaku Ikeda) (Flammarion, 1976)
  • the Changing of Imaginary, French painting at the XIXe century, realism and romanticism (Flammarion, 1981)
  • Signs of time and Modern art (Flammarion, 1985)
  • to lose itself in Venice (with Marcel Brion) (Arthaud, 1987)
  • Psychologie of art, summary of the courses of the Collège de France (the Rock, 1991)

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