John rewald biography
John Rewald (May 12, – February 2, ) was an..
John Rewald
American art historian
John Rewald (May 12, – February 2, ) was an American academic, author and art historian.
He was known as a scholar of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cézanne, Renoir, Pissarro, Seurat, and other French painters of the late 19th century.[1] He was recognized as a foremost authority on late 19th-century art.
His History of Impressionism is a standard work.
John Rewald was an American academic, author and art historian.
Biography
He was born Gustav Rewald at Berlin, of a middle-class, professional family. Rewald came from a Jewish background. He completed his Abitur in Hamburg, and studied thereafter at several German universities, going to the Sorbonne in Paris in At the Sorbonne he wrote his dissertation on the friendship of Zola and Cézanne, having to persuade the academic authorities on this because Cézanne (died ) was considered too recent a figure.
When France declared war on Germany in , he was interned as an enemy alien. He emigrated to the United States in and Alfred Barr