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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. According to Klaus Albrecht Schröder, director of the Albertina, Vienna, Spies is "one of the most influential art historians of the 20th century."〔(Julia Michalska, "Werner Spies rehabilitated with Max Ernst show in Vienna". ''The Art Newspaper'', 28 January 2013. )〕 ==Life and work== In his younger years, Spies worked as a writer of feuilletons for some German newspapers. He then studied art history, philosophy and French literature at the universities of Vienna, Tübingen and Paris.〔(artnews.org: ALTE HASEN: WERNER SPIES IN CONVERSATION WITH THOMAS W. GAEHTGENS )〕 He completed his Ph.D. thesis and Habilitationsschrift, both in the history of arts, at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Since 1960, Spies has lived in Paris. From 1975 to 2002, he was a professor of the history of arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.〔(Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Klasse der Künste: Werner Spies )〕 He also writes articles for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.〔(Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Klasse der Künste: Werner Spies )〕 As an expert on, and friend of,〔(Werner Spies: "Zwischen Oberammergau und Guillotine" ), BR, 2 March 2012.〕〔(artnews.org: ALTE HASEN: WERNER SPIES IN CONVERSATION WITH THOMAS W. GAEHTGENS )〕 Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso, he wrote many books, and also organized major exhibitions, on these artists.〔(art-perfect: PICASSO – MALEN GEGEN DIE ZEIT, Albertina Wien )〕 He compiled the first catalogue raisonné of Picasso’s sculptures in 1971 and organized the first ever Max Ernst retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1975.〔(Julia Michalska, "Werner Spies rehabilitated with Max Ernst show in Vienna". ''The Art Newspaper'', 28 January 2013. )〕 On his suggestion, photographer Andreas Gursky donated ''PCF'' (2003), his photograph of the headquarters of the French Communist Party, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, to the Centre Pompidou in 2010.〔Anna Sansom (2 December 2010), ( Artist tops up Pompidou’s collection ) ''The Art Newspaper''.〕 In his later years, Spies was fooled by art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi's near-identical forgeries of five works by Max Ernst. The art historian, who first met Ernst in 1966 and is the leading expert on this artist, mistakenly issued certificates of authenticity for these fake copies of the surrealist’s work. On 24 May 2013, Spies was convicted by the high court in Nanterre and ordered to pay €652,883 to the collector who purchased in 2004 an alleged Max Ernst painting, entitled ''Tremblement de Terre'', that he had wrongly authenticated.〔(Art Media Agency: Ernst Expert Werner Spies fined )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Werner Spies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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