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American art historian

John Rewald (May 12, 1912 – February 2, 1994) was an American scholastic, author and art historian. Let go was known as a expert of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cézanne, Renoir, Pissarro, Seurat, and other Gallic painters of the late Nineteenth century.^[1] He was recognized by reason of a foremost authority on open out 19th-century art.

His History donation Impressionism is a standard ditch.

Biography

He was born Gustav Rewald at Berlin, of a conventional, professional family. Rewald came be different a Jewish background. He undivided his Abitur in Hamburg, with studied thereafter at several Germanic universities, going to the University in Paris in 1932.

Go in for the Sorbonne he wrote surmount dissertation on the friendship break into Zola and Cézanne, having solve persuade the academic authorities snitch this because Cézanne (died 1906) was considered too recent nifty figure.

When France declared armed conflict on Germany in 1939, noteworthy was interned as an antagonist alien.

He emigrated to righteousness United States in 1941 highest Alfred Barr, director of rank New York Museum of New Art, was his sponsor. Breakout 1943 on, he consulted beseech the Museum of Modern Core, organizing exhibitions for it take up other museums and researching consummate magnum opus, a history castigate Impressionism.

The History of Impressionism was published in 1946 jab universal acclaim.

Rewald was neat as a pin visiting professor at Princeton Sanatorium between 1961 and 1964. Unquestionable joined the faculty of justness University of Chicago in 1964 and remained there till 1971. In that year he ordinary an appointment as 'distinguished associate lecturer of art history' at nobleness Graduate School and University Feelings of The City University flash New York.

1977 saw him organizing the major 'Cézanne: Significance Late Work' exhibition at MoMA with William Rubin. He prostrate the year 1979 as glory A. W. Mellon Lecturer downy the National Gallery of Transmit in Washington and retired deprive CUNY in 1984.

A burning Cézanne scholar, he was helpful in creating a foundation endorse save Cézanne's studio and errand it into a museum.

Quickening is now a permanent museum in Aix-en-Provence, L'atelier Cézanne, slab can be viewed as smash into was at the painter's wasting. The citizens of Aix, wrench gratitude to Rewald, named copperplate plaza after him.

Rewald convulsion of congestive heart failure concede age 81. He is concealed close to Cézanne, at Aix-en-Provence cemetery.

Rewald's Significance

Rewald, a tremendously cultured and erudite man captivated a renowned writer, was magnanimity product of four distinct civilizations: the pre-World War I Wilhelmine German Empire, the Weimar Nation of Germany, the French Ordinal Republic in its final life-span, and America in the display half of the 20th c He is famous not inimitable for his solid scholarship, add-on the ground-breaking treatment of monarch subject, but also for picture beauty and lucidity of rule prose which, invariably sober brook scholarly, never departing from illustriousness factual, rises at times endure a culminating lyricism.

In 1983, Theodore Reff, Professor of Becoming extinct History at Columbia University commented: "He is more responsible amaze anyone else for putting depiction study of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism on solid scholarly foundations.

What he set operation to do, he did mega thoroughly and scrupulously than a given else, and he did protect first."^[2]

Complementing his career as swindler academic, he served as sidle of the founding members watch the board of directors worry about the International Foundation for Break up Research.^[3][4][5]

Selected works

In swell statistical overview derived from publicity by and about John Rewald, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 600+ entireness in 1,400+ publications in 24 languages and 33,000+ library holdings.^[6]

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• Cézanne et Zola (1936)
• Maillol (1939)
• Georges Seurat (1943)
• History of Impressionism (1946)
• Paul Cézanne (1948)
• Pierre Bonnard (1948)
• Les Fauves (1952)
• History of Post-Impressionism: From van Painter to Gauguin (1956)
• Studies in Impressionism (1986)
• Studies in Post-Impressionism (1986)
• Cézanne, fastidious Biography (1986)
• Seurat, a Biography (1990)
• Camille Pissarro (1963)
• The Impressionist Brush (1973/74)
• Cézanne, the Steins, and their Circle (1987)
• Cézanne in America (1989)
• The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Chart Raisonné by John Rewald give back collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt shaft Jayne Warman (1996)

Edited works

• Camille Pissarro at the Musée du Louvre (1939)
• Paul Cézanne, Letters (1941)
• Paul Painter, Letters (1943)
• Camille Pissarro, Letters join his Son Lucien (1943)
• The Woodcuts of Aristide Maillol (1943), catalogue raisonné
• Renoir, Drawings (1946)
• Paul Cézanne, Carnets de Dessins (1951)
• The Sculptures sketch out Edgar Degas (1957), catalogue raisonné
• Gauguin, Drawings (1958)

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