Norman Rosenthal

This article is about the art curator and historian. For the psychiatrist, see Norman E. Rosenthal.

Sir Norman Rosenthal
Rosenthal in 2012
Born (1944-11-08) 8 November 1944 (age 80)
London, England
OccupationArt curator

Sir Norman Rosenthal (born 8 November 1944) is a British independent curator and art historian. From 1970 to 1974 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.[1] 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.[2] Rosenthal is well known for his support of contemporary art, and is particularly associated with the German artists Joseph Beuys, Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer 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 (Young British Artists).

  1. ^ Hodgson, Martin (31 January 2008). "Rosenthal quits Royal Academy after 31 years of blockbusters". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 7 April 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)