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Ricardo Coimbra de Almeida Brennand, businessman, engineer and art collector

8May

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Brazil, Noteworthy, Profiles

Ricardo Coimbra de Almeida Brennand, businessman, engineer and art collector

Ricardo Coimbra de Almeida Brennand a Brazilian businessman, engineer, and art collector in the state of Pernambuco died on 25 April 2020, aged 92, at Real Hospital Português in Recife, due to complications from COVID-19. In 2002 he founded the Ricardo Brennand Institute, which includes the world's largest private collection of Frans Post paintings, and was the 17th-highest-rated museum in the world according to TripAdvisor in 2014. Brennand was born to Dulce Padilha Coimbra and Antônio Luiz de Almeida Brennand in Cabo de Santo Agostinho. He and his family relocated to Recife in 1930, where Brennand completed his secondary education at Colégio Marista from 1937 to 1942. During this time he learned fluent German and English, owing to his British ancestor Edward Brennand who immig...

30Apr

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Italy, Noteworthy, Profiles

Germano Celant, art historian

Germano Celant -- an Italian art historian, critic and curator who coined the term "Arte Povera" (poor art) in 1967 and wrote many articles and books on the subject -- died after suffering from Covid-19 on April 29, 2020. He as 79. Germano Celant was born in Genoa. He attended the University of Genoa, where he studied history of art with Eugenio Battisti. In 1963 he worked as assistant editor for Marcatrè, a Genoa-based magazine about architecture, art, design, music and literature founded by Rodolfo Vitone, Eugenio Battisti, Paolo Portoghesi, Diego Carpitella, Maurizio Calvesi, Umberto Eco, Vittorio Gelmetti and Edoardo Sanguineti. In 1967, his manifesto of Arte Povera, Notes for a Guerilla, was published in Flash Art. The concept of Arte Povera seemed to be that in Italy art was...

15Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

William Henry Gerdts Jr., art historian

William Henry Gerdts Jr. an American art historian and professor of Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center. Gerdts was the author of over twenty-five books on American art died of complications of the COVID-19 virus, aged 91, on April 14, 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. An expert in American Impressionism, he was also well known for his work on nineteenth-century American still life painting. Gerdts was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. Beginning in 1945 he attended Amherst College. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst in 1949, Gerdts attended Harvard Law School, but after four days switched to the Department of Fine Arts. There he earned a master's degree in 1950 and a Ph.D. in 1966. Gerdts' professional positions included that of Cura...

Maurice Berger, cultural historian curator & art critic

24Mar

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Maurice Berger, cultural historian curator & art critic

Maurice Berger ‑ an American cultural historian, curator, and art critic, who served as a Research Professor and Chief Curator at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County ‑ died due to presumed complications of a coronavirus disease on March 23, 2020. Berger was recognized for his interdisciplinary scholarship on race and visual culture in the United States. He curated a number of important exhibitions examining the relationship between race and American art, including the critically-acclaimed For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights co-organized in 2011 by the National Museum of African American History and Culture of the Smithsonian Institution and the Center for Art, Design &...