Olivier Berggruen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Olivier Berggruen
Occupation	Art Historian
Date Of Birth	Sep 14, 1963(1963-09-14)
Age	61
Birthplace	Winterthur
Country	Switzerland
Birth City	Canton of Zürich
Horoscope	Capricorn

Olivier Berggruen Biography

Olivier Berggruen is one of the most popular and richest Art Historian who was born on September 14, 1963 in Winterthur, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland. Olivier Berggruen (born 14 September 1963) is a German-American art historian and curator, described by the Wall Street Journal as playing “a pivotal role in the art world.”

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. He is a contributor to the Huffington Post, for which he writes articles on art, literature, and philosophy. 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. 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. He is currently working on two book projects, including a history of collecting and a study of Wittgenstein’s aesthetics, and will be lecturing at the Courtauld Institute in the 2017–18 academic year. 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. In 2019, he co-curated an exhibition on Picasso and antiquity at the Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens.

Olivier Berggruen Net Worth

Olivier Berggruen is one of the richest Art Historian from Switzerland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Olivier Berggruen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He briefly worked at the auction house Sotheby’s in London, before serving as curator at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt. 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, and the Paris Institute of Political Studies. 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.

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. Berggruen has additional homes in Paris and Gstaad, Switzerland. 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. 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. He additionally sits on the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Hall and Brown University’s John Carter Brown Library. Berggruen was a donor to the presidential campaign of Emmanuel Macron during his campaign, as revealed by the 2017 Macron e-mail leaks. He has also donated to the campaigns of several Democratic Party candidates, including Barack Obama and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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Facts & Trivia

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Top Facts about Olivier Berggruen

1. Olivier Berggruen is a German-American art historian and curator.
2. He was born on November 29, 1963, in Paris, France.
3. Berggruen specializes in modern and contemporary art.
4. He is the son of renowned art collector Heinz Berggruen.
5. Olivier has curated numerous exhibitions worldwide.
6. He studied at Harvard University and the Courtauld Institute of Art.
7. Berggruen has written extensively on artists such as Picasso and Matisse.
8. He co-founded the online platform Collecteurs for art philanthropy initiatives.
9. Olivier serves on the board of various cultural institutions globally.
10. His expertise includes European and American post-war art movements.