Norman Rosenthal
Curator, Chivalric Order Member
1944 –
Who is Norman Rosenthal?
Sir Norman Rosenthal is an independent curator and art historian. From 1970–74 he was Exhibitions Officer at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. In 1974 he became a curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, leaving in 1976. The following year, in 1977, he joined the Royal Academy in London as Exhibitions Secretary where he remained until his resignation in 2008. Rosenthal has been a trustee of numerous different national and international cultural organisations since the 1980s; he is currently on the board of English National Ballet. In 2007, he was awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Rosenthal is well known for his support of contemporary art, and is particularly associated with the German artists Joseph Beuys, George Baselitz, Anselm Keifer and Julian Schnabel, the Italian painter Francesco Clemente, and the generation of British artists that came to prominence in the early 1990s known as the YBAs.
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- Born
- Nov 8, 1944
Cambridge - Also known as
- Sir Norman Rosenthal
- Parents
- Spouses
- Manuela Mena
(1989 - )
- Manuela Mena
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University of Leicester
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on July 23, 2013
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