Olivier Berggruen Explained

Olivier Berggruen
Birth Name:Olivier Berggruen
Birth Date:14 September 1963
Birth Place:Winterthur, Switzerland
Citizenship:
  • United States
  • Germany
Education:École alsacienne
Alma Mater:Brown University (AB)
Courtauld Institute of Art (AM)
University of London (AM)
Occupation:Art historian, curator
Party:Democratic
Children:2
Mother:Bettina Moissi
Father:Heinz Berggruen
Relatives:

Olivier Berggruen (born 14 September 1963) is a German-American art historian and curator,[1] [2] described by the Wall Street Journal as playing "a pivotal role in the art world."[3]

Early life and education

Born in Winterthur, Switzerland, Berggruen is the son of noted German art collector Heinz Berggruen and actress Bettina Moissi. He graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and completed his graduate studies at the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London, where he studied with Anita Brookner, who was his advisor.[4] [5]

Career

He briefly worked at the auction house Sotheby's in London, before serving as curator at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt.[6] [7] [8] He has lectured at numerous institutions, including Carnegie Mellon University, the Frick Collection, The National Gallery in London, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., the 92nd Street Y, the National Gallery of Canada, NYU's Global Institute for Advanced Study, and the Paris Institute of Political Studies.[9] [10] [11] He currently serves as chairman of the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and was the recipient of the 2009 Berliner Zeitung Media Award.[12]

Berggruen has curated a number of international exhibitions, such as a retrospective of Yves Klein at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and one of Beatrice Caracciolo at the French Academy in Rome.[13] He is a contributor to the Huffington Post, for which he writes articles on art, literature, and philosophy.[14] Additionally, he has written extensively on Picasso, Yves Klein, and Henri Matisse, among others, for organizations including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, publications such as Artforum and The Print Quarterly, and for Gagosian Gallery, for which he contributed with University of Cambridge professor Mary Jacobus.[15] [16] His first book, The Writing of Art, is a series of essays, which explores aesthetics through the lens of twentieth-century art, tracing movements and trends such as the ontological discontinuity of modernism in Picasso's ballets. In 2016, the Italian government commissioned Berggruen to curate an exhibition to celebrate the centennial of Picasso's Italian journey. “Picasso: From Cubism to Classicism, 1915 to 1925,” was held at Rome's Scuderie del Quirinale from September 22, 2017, through January 21st, 2018.[17] [18] In 2019, he co-curated an exhibition on Picasso and antiquity at the Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, which won a 2019 Global Fine Art Award.[19] [20]

Berggruen was guest editor for the July/August 2020 edition of The Brooklyn Rail, and in 2021 curated a Picasso exhibition at Acquavella Galleries.[21] [22] [23] [24] He is an artistic adviser to the Menuhin Festival Gstaad.[25]

Personal life

Berggruen lives in New York City with his wife, Desiree, whom he met while both were studying at Brown. She is a physician, and together they have two children, Tobias and Ana.[26] Berggruen has additional homes in Paris and Gstaad, Switzerland.[27] His brother is billionaire and philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen; he additionally has two half-siblings, John, a San Francisco-based art dealer, and Helen, a painter.[28] [29] [30] [31] He serves on various committees at institutions across the world, including Brown University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Tate Modern, Picasso Museum in Paris, Courtauld Institute, Museum Berggruen, and Mariinsky Ballet.[32] [33] He additionally sits on the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Hall, the Berggruen Institute, and Brown University's John Carter Brown Library.[34] [35] [36] He has also donated to the campaigns of several Democratic Party candidates, including Barack Obama and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.[37]

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. A. K. Thomson, "'Homeless billionaire' Nicolas Berggruen on putting down LA roots", The Financial Times, November 13, 2017. "Olivier, [Nicholas] Berggruen's brother, is an influential New York-based art historian and curator."
  2. News: Rule No. 1: Don't Yell, 'My Kid Could Do That' . Allen. Greg. 2006-11-05. The New York Times. 2019-01-19. en-US. 0362-4331.
  3. Mary M. Lane, "A Family's Legacy Grows in Berlin", The Wall Street Journal
  4. Web site: venetia kapernekas gallery . Venetiakapernekas.com . 2008-06-13 . 2016-06-21.
  5. Web site: Olivier Berggruen on Anita Brookner (1928–2016) - artforum.com / passages . Artforum.com . 2016-06-21.
  6. Web site: Korman . Sam . The Brazilian Form - News - Art in America . Artinamericamagazine.com . 2011-10-14 . 2016-06-21.
  7. Web site: Arts & Sociétés . Artsetsocietes.org . 2006-06-29 . 2016-06-21.
  8. Poggi. Christine. 2019-01-02. Stage at the Edge of the Sea: Picasso's Scenographic Imagination. The Art Bulletin. 101. 1. 90–118. 10.1080/00043079.2018.1504550. 192534803. 0004-3079.
  9. Web site: In Conversation: Olivier Berggruen and Anabelle Kienle Poňka. www.gallery.ca. en. 2018-10-28.
  10. Web site: "Goncourt Brothers and the Taste for the Eighteenth Century," Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. H-Announce H-Net. networks.h-net.org. 2020-02-25.
  11. Web site: 2016-02-08. The Future of Classical Music. 2021-07-24. Global Institute for Advanced Study. en-US.
  12. Web site: Archived copy . www.metmuseum.org . 13 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160804201828/http://www.metmuseum.org/~/media/Files/About/Annual%20Reports/2014-2015/Annual%20Report%202015%20Visiting%20Committees.pdf . 4 August 2016 . dead.
  13. Web site: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao . Sismus.org . 2016-06-21.
  14. Web site: Olivier Berggruen . Huffingtonpost.com . 2016-06-21.
  15. Web site: Picasso Black and White . Guggenheim.org . 2012-12-24. 2016-06-21.
  16. Web site: Cy Twombly . Gagosian.com . 2016-06-21. 2015-12-11 .
  17. Alexandra Wolfe."Picasso's Productive Roman Holiday, Wall Street Journal, September 8th, 2017.
  18. McDonald. Alison. October 9, 2017. Picasso in Italy: An Interview with Olivier Berggruen. Gagosian Quarterly.
  19. Web site: 'Picasso and Antiquity. Line and Clay' attracted 20K visitors in the first two months. Museum of Cycladic Art. en. 2019-09-22.
  20. Web site: 2019 Award Winners and Honorable Mentions. Global Fine Art Awards. en-US. 2020-05-28.
  21. Web site: Berggruen. Olivier. 2020-07-09. State of Affairs. 2020-07-09. The Brooklyn Rail. en-US.
  22. Web site: Rhodes . David . 2021-11-02 . Picasso: Seven Decades of Drawing . 2024-05-31 . The Brooklyn Rail . en-US.
  23. Web site: Bors . Chris . 2021-11-03 . Pablo Picasso . 2024-05-31 . Artforum . en-US.
  24. Web site: 2021-10-26 . The Critic’s Notebook The New Criterion . 2024-05-31 . en-US.
  25. Web site: Organisation of the Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy. 2021-04-08. www.gstaadmenuhinfestival.ch.
  26. Web site: The Curator — Olivier Berggruen - Steinway & Sons. www.steinway.com. en. 2018-03-22.
  27. News: The Berggruen Family and the Gstaad Connection to the Art World: An Encounter with Olivier Berggruen. Tschanz. Hans-Ueli. Gstaad My Love.
  28. News: Heinz Berggruen, Influential Picasso Collector, Dies at 93. The New York Times. 27 February 2007 . 2016-06-21 . Riding . Alan .
  29. Web site: Ward . Vicky . Nicolas Berggreun Interview- Why Nicolas Berggreun is Creating an Institute for Geniuses . Townandcountrymag.com . 2016-05-11 . 2016-06-21.
  30. Web site: Jacques Herzog explains the spheres in his design for the Berggruen Institute Design & Architecture. blogs.kcrw.com. en-US. 2018-06-17. 2017-09-05. "[Nicolas] Berggruen [is the] son of the late Heinz Berggruen, a prominent art dealer, and brother of art critic and historian Olivier Berggruen."
  31. News: The T&C 50: The Most Influential Families in Media, Art, and Culture. 2018-10-17. Town & Country. 2018-10-23. en-US.
  32. Web site: Mariinsky Foundation of America . mariinsky.us . 2016-06-24.
  33. https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/about/governance Board of Governors, John Carter Brown Library of Brown University
  34. Web site: Board of Directors Archives. 2020-06-22. Berggruen Institute. en-US.
  35. Web site: Board of Trustees. www.carnegiehall.org. en. 2019-06-14.
  36. Web site: Board of Governors John Carter Brown Library. 2020-06-22. jcblibrary.org.
  37. Web site: Browse Individual contributions. FEC.gov. en. 2019-08-05.
  38. Web site: Olivier Berggruen, The Writing of Art . PhilPapers.org . 2012-03-25 . 2016-06-21.

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