Werner Spies

Werner Spies (born 1 April 1937 in Tübingen) is a German art historian, journalist and organizer of exhibitions. From 1997 to 2000, he was also a director of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.[1]

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Life and work

In his younger years, Spies worked as a writer of feuilletons for some German newspapers. He then studied history of arts, philosophy and French literature at the universities of Vienna, Tübingen and Paris. He completed his Ph.D. thesis and Habilitationsschrift, both in the history of arts, at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

Since 1960, Spies lives in Paris. From 1975 to 2002 he was a professor of the history of arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.[2] He also writes articles for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

As an expert on, and friend of, Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso, he wrote many books, and also organized major exhibitions, on these artists.

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Publications

References

  1. ^ http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/qvo/pm/pm2005/pm-05-07.html Ehrendoktorwürde für Werner Spies.
  2. ^ http://www.wernerspies.net/2.html Werner Spies Net: Vita.