Philippe de Montebello, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Philippe de Montebello

former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Date of Birth: 16-May-1936

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Profession: curator, art historian, museum director

Nationality: United States, France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Philippe de Montebello

  • Philippe de Montebello (born May 16, 1936 in Paris) is a museum director.
  • He served from 1977 to 2008 as the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
  • On his retirement, he was both the longest-serving director in the institution's history, and the third longest-serving director of any major art museum in the world (first is Irina Antonova, who was the Director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow for 52 years, from 1961 to 2013, making her the oldest and the longest serving director of a major art museum in the world.
  • Second is Knud W.
  • Jensen, who served as the director of Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art north of Copenhagen for 35 years, from 1958 to 1993).
  • From January 2009, Montebello took up a post as the first Fiske Kimball Professor in the History and Culture of Museums at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. Born to a French aristocratic family, de Montebello immigrated to the United States of America in the 1950s, and became a naturalized citizen of the US in 1955.
  • He was educated in New York City at the Lycée Français de New York, graduated from Harvard University with a degree in art history, and earned an MA from New York University, after which he embarked on a career in Fine Arts.
  • He became the Director of the Metropolitan Museum in 1977 and has become widely known as the public face of the museum. He announced his retirement on 8 January 2008, stating that he intended to step down by the end of 2008 after more than 31 years at his post.

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