Germain Bazin was born in Suresnes on 24 September 1901. He studied art history at the University of Paris. Bazin became an art professor at the University of Brussels in 1934 before returning to Paris to work at the Louvre in 1936. From 1951 to 1965 he was chief curator of paintings at the Louvre. From 1965 to 1970 he was in charge of painting restoration for France's national museum system. In 1981 he became member of the Royal Academie.
He died 2 May 1990.
Works
Le Mont-Saint-Michel. Preface by Marcel Aubert. Paris: Auguste Picard, 1933
La France en guerre. Preface by André Siegfried. Paris: Plon, 1940.
L'époque impressionniste: avec notices biographiques et bibliographiques, Paris: P. Tisné, 1947
History of Classic Painting. Translated from the French by Rosamund Frost. New York: Hyperion Press, 1951
L'Histoire de l’art de la prehistoire à nos jours, 1953
The Louvre. Translated by M. I. Martin. London: Thames and Hudson, 1957
The Loom of Art. Translated by Jonathan Griffin. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962
The Museum Age. Translated by Jane van Nuis Cahill. New York: Universe Books 1967
Histoire de l'avante-garde en peinture de XIIIe au XXe siècle, Paris: Hathette, 1969. Translated by Simon Watson Taylor as The Avant-garde in Painting, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969.
The Baroque: Principles, Styles, Modes, Themes. Translation by Pat Wardroper. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1968; Corot. Paris: Hachette, 1973
Histoire de l'histoire de l'art: de Vasari à nos jours, Paris: A. Michel, 1986
Théodore Géricault : étude critique, documents et catalogue raisonné. Paris: La Bibliothèque des arts, 1987-1997
