Art historian · Exhibition curator · Author · Lecturer
Jacques-Sylvain Klein
Art historian, exhibition curator, author and lecturer. A specialist of Impressionism in Normandy and of the region's medieval Jewish heritage.
About
Born in Rouen in 1946, a graduate of Sciences Po Paris and holder of a doctorate in management sciences, Jacques-Sylvain Klein first pursued a career as a senior civil servant at the French National Assembly. He then devoted himself to art history and heritage.
A specialist of Norman Impressionism, he is the author of several reference books on painting in Normandy, beginning with La Normandie, berceau de l'impressionnisme (1996). In 2010 he became the first general curator of the Normandie Impressionniste festival. As a curator he notably signed The Open-Air Studio. The Impressionists in Normandy at the Musée Jacquemart-André (2016).
A specialist of medieval Norman Judaism, he has been, since 2007, the delegate of the association of the Maison Sublime in Rouen — the oldest preserved Jewish monument in France, reopened to the public in 2022 — to which he has devoted two books.
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