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Шаблон:Short description Egbert Baqué (born 1952, in Saarbrücken) is a German gallerist, author and translator.

Life & Work

Egbert Baqué grew up in Saarbrücken and now lives in Berlin, Germany where he studied Sinology. In the beginning of the 1990s he worked as a freelance author, translator, curator, and as a project manager in the field of international cultural exchange responsible for museum exhibits.

He founded his first gallery in 1991. From 1997 to 2005, he worked as the correspondent for a gallery in Paris, and in this capacity he prepared exhibitions with artists such as Georg Baselitz, Markus Lüpertz, Helmut Middendorf, Norbert Bisky and Markus Oehlen. Since 2001 he has been active translating books and catalogue articles about Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Gustave Courbet, Yves Klein, Bettina Rheims, Jannis Kounellis, John Chamberlain and Louise Bourgeois among others. In 2011, Egbert Baqué was nominated for the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis as the translator for the book Der Junge, der Picasso biss (The boy who bit Picasso) by Antony Penrose.[1]

Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art Berlin

In autumn 2005, he founded his new gallery in Berlin, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, which primarily exhibits painting and photography. The artists of the gallery include: Abetz & Drescher, Pia Arnström, Wiebke Bartsch, Walter Bortolossi, Selket Chlupka, Claus Feldmann, Bettina van Haaren, Yago Hortal, Ivar Kaasik, Volker Lehnert, Wolfgang Neumann, Tim Plamper, Thibaut de Reimpré, Fernando M. Romero, and Franziska Strauss.

Literature (selection)

Books

Article for the German weekly Die Zeit

References

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