"Born in Paris in 1936 to German-Jewish parents who fled the Nazis, his family survived the war in hiding in south-western France. Rosenberg first arrived at the Louvre in 1962, at the invitation of Charles de Gaulle's minister of culture, later heading up the department of paintings during the museum's dramatic relaunch in the 1980s and early 90s, symbolised by the 1989 completion of I.M. Pei's sculptural entrance, the Louvre Pyramid."
"The French art historian Neville Rowley, a curator at Berlin's Gemäldegalerie, says Rosenberg is 'certainly a living legend'. The British art historian Colin B. Bailey, the director of New York's Morgan Library & Museum, who has known the Frenchman for over four decades but concedes that 'I'm still in awe of him'."
Pierre Rosenberg, now 89, is publishing a long-awaited four-volume catalogue raisonné of Nicolas Poussin's paintings, expected to draw increased attention to the French Classicist painter whose works occupy a quiet corner of the Louvre. Rosenberg, born in Paris in 1936 to German-Jewish parents who fled Nazi persecution, has spent over six decades at the Louvre since 1962. He led the museum's transformation during the 1980s and 1990s, served as president-director from 1994 to 2001, and continues as honorary president-director. Throughout his career, he has curated major exhibitions internationally while specializing in 17th and 18th-century French and Italian art. Colleagues regard him as a living legend in art history.
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