Werner spies biography
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Alte Hasen: Werner Spies in conversation with Thomas W. Gaehtgens
7 pm
Werner Spies (born in in Tübingen) studied art history, philosophy and Romance studies in Vienna, Tübingen and Paris. He translated works by Francis Ponge, jean Tardieu and Marguerite Duras into German and prompted Beckett, Nathalie Sarraute, Butor, Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Duras and Ponge to write pieces for the German radio and television broadcasting service. Since he has regularly written articles for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Between and Spies was a professor of 20th century art at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. From until he directed the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou. Spies organized several pioneering retrospectives of his friends Picasso and högsta Ernst. Other exhibitions curated by Spies addressed “Paris-Berlin”, Surrealism, Andy Warhol, Josef Albers, Neo Rauch and David Lynch. He presides over the board of trustees of the högsta Ernst Museum in Brühl whose op
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Born in Germany, Werner Spies has always been fascinated by France where he’s lived since he was
The director of the Musée National d&#;Art Moderne in Paris from to and author of the catalogue raisonné of Picasso’s sculptures, Werner Spies recently donated 51 drawings to the Max Ernst Museum in Bruhl, Rhineland from his early years. ‘They’re helpful for understanding Ernst’s formative years,’ he comments.
Recently, however, Spies was also implicated in a modern art forgery scandal that made the headlines which involved forger Wolfgang Beltracchi.
Spies was prosecuted in , then acquitted in (by the Versailles appeal court) for including ‘The Earthquake’ in the catalogue raisonné of Max Ernst. A modern pigment used in the painting allowed the forgery to be detected.
The court c
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Werner Spies
German art historian, journalist and exhibition organizer
Werner Spies (born 1 April in Tübingen) is a German art historian, journalist and exhibition organizer. From to , he was a director of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.[1] Klaus Albrecht Schröder, director of the Albertina in Vienna, has called Spies "one of the most influential art historians of the 20th century."[2]
Life and work
[edit]In his youth, Spies worked as a writer of feuilletons for German newspapers. He studied art history, philosophy and French literature at the universities of Vienna, Tübingen and Paris.[3] He completed his PhD thesis and Habilitationsschrift, both in the history of arts, at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
He has lived in Paris since From to he was a professor of the history of arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.[4] He also writes articles for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.[5]
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