Jacques-Édouard Berger

Jacques-Édouard Berger
Born 24 May 1945
Died 10 November 1993
Alma mater University of Lausanne
Occupation art historian

Jacques-Édouard Berger (24 May 1945 – 10 November 1993) was a Swiss Egyptologist

Biography

Jacques-Édouard Berger was the son of the Swiss writer, philosopher and art historian, René Berger.

He received a BA from the University of Lausanne in 1969, and obtained an additional degree in Egyptology at the University of Geneva in 1973.

Work

He held the positions of Curator at the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne, lecturer at the École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. He was a member of several international committees at the International Council of Museums and UNESCO.

Sarcophagus mask (New Kingdom).
J.-E. Berger Collection/MUDAC, Lausanne[1]

Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

The Foundation was created by a small group of relatives and friends in 1994, shortly after Berger’s deat.[2] Its aim is to edit his entire works through a website named for him. The collection contains are more than 100,000 images (mainly slides), as well as recordings of Berger’s successful lectures.

Since Berger’s private collection has been placed at the Musée des arts décoratifs de Lausanne, currently Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (MUDAC), the Foundation was inaugurated with an exhibition there.,[3] (November 17, 1995 – January, 2, 1996).

Publications

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sarcophagus mask (cat. 380), Jacques-Édouard Berger, Un regard partagé, 1995: 44-45, 166; http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/Un_regard/english/egypte.html
  2. ↑ Lettre envoyée le 5 septembre 1994, by René Berger, Jacques-Édouard Berger, Un regard partagé, 1995: 7-9.
  3. ↑ Exhibition http://www.mudac.ch/collections

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