David Ekserdjian
David Patrick Martin Ekserdjian (born 28 October 1955) is Emeritus Professor of Art and Film History at the University of Leicester.[1]
Early life and family
[edit]Ekserdjian was educated at Westminster School and Cambridge University.[2] He is the son of London School of Economics (B. Comm) graduate Colonel Nubar Martin 'Bill' Ekserdjian (1913-1967), a Northhampshireman whose family were Armenian nobility - Amira - a class of influential wealthy Armenians in the Ottoman Empire between the 18th and 19th centuries.[3] Col. Ekserdjian was an executive director of Iraq Petroleum Company founded by Calouste Gulbenkian, an avid art collector; both Gulbenkian and his son, Nubar, shared an interest in art with Col. Ekserdjian.[4][5][6][7] David's brother is barrister Angus George Martin Ekserdjian (1948-1989), a Westminster School alumni.[8]
Other members of the Ekserdjian family who have been art historians include Hmayeag Ekserdjian who wrote Memoir on the Two Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary of the Holy Cross Church of Uskudar 1676-1926.[9]
Career
[edit]Ekserdjian spent the years 1991 to 1997 working for Christie's. He was Editor of art magazine Apollo (1997-2004). His academic posts include lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art from 1986 until 1987. In 2017-18, he was the Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford. He has been a member of the Courtauld Institute Board since 1998. His publications include introduction and notes for Vasari's Lives of the Artists (1996) and Correggio (1997).[10][11]
Selected publications
[edit]- Correggio. 1997.
- Parmigianino. 2006.
- Treasures from Budapest. European Masterpieces from Leonardo to Schiele. 2010. (editor)
- Bronze. Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2012. (With Cecilia Treves) ISBN 978-1907533280
- Correggio and Parmigianino: Art in Parma During the Sixteenth Century. 2016.
References
[edit]- ^ "Emeritus Professor David Ekserdjian — University of Leicester".
Professor David Ekserdjian Emeritus Professor of Art and Film History
- ^ M.B., J. (1983). "The Elizabethan. Collections - Westminster School" (PDF). Westminster School. p. 249. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
...While he was at Westminster David had the unparalleled misfortune of being taught by me for sixteen terms on the trot: I was also his housemaster. Possibly my influence retarded him: certainly as a specialist he was a late developer, coming from behind in a brilliant Election to take first class Honours in Medieval Languages at Cambridge..
- ^ Barsoumian, Hagop Levon (1980). THE ARMENIAN AMIRA CLASS OP ISTANBUL. Columbia University. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
The Amiras were a class of influential wealthy Armenians in the Ottoman capital between the 18th and 19th centuries...On the topic, see also Pascal Carmont's The Amiras: Lords of Ottoman Armenia....Hmayeag Ekserdjian, Hishatakaran Hngeak Hobeleani S[urb] Khateh Ekeghetsvoy Skutaru 1676-1926 [Memoir on the Two Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary of the Holy Cross Church of Uskudar 1676-1926] (Constantinople, 1927)
- ^ The Middle East - Volume 10. Europa Publications Ltd. 1963. p. 156 -502. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
...Ekserdjian , Nubar Martin , B.COM ; British oil executive ; b . 12 ; ed ... (Calouste Gulbenkian interests...Nubar Sarkis Gulbenkian...Gulbenkian Library (page 230)...
- ^ "Student Union Officers 1934-1935, 1934 - Joint Secretary, Nubar Martin Ekserdjian, LSE Student 1932-1939". LSE. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ Conlin, J. (2019). Mr Five Per Cent. Southhampton University. p. 1945. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
...Northhamptonshire N. M. 'Bill' Ekserdjian Diaries...Ekserjian family...Ekserdjian had served in the British Army during the war, rising to the rank of brigadier [colonel]. He was not willing to have the family pull strings to get ... Armenian. Ekserdjian succeeded in improving the atmosphere in the London office...[family hailed from Amenian] amira clans...Gulbenkian notched up four to six art collections a day during his Vienna tour...In 1929 TPC [Turkish Petroleum Comapany] duly became Iraq Petroleum Company [of which Gulbenkian would have a 5% share]...
- ^ "Recommendation for Award for Ekserdjian, Nubar Martin Rank: Colonel". The National Archives Kew, Richmond. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
- ^ "Ekserdjian, Angus George Martin, 1948-1989". Online Catalogue for Westminster School's Archive & Collections. Westminster School. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
Ekserdjian, Angus George Martin, 1948-1989 GB-2014-WSA-06721 · Person · 1948-1989 Ekserdjian, Angus George Martin, son of Col. Nubar Martin Ekserdjian TA TD, economist, of Knaphill, Surrey, and Mabel Brown, d. of George Angus, steel maker, of Motherwell, Lanarks; b. 11 Dec. 1948; adm. May 1962 (B); left Dec. 1967; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1968, BA 1971, MA 1976; called to the Bar, Middle Temple Feb. 1973; d. 26 Mar. 1989.
- ^ BARSUMIAN, Jacob (1980). THE ARMENIAN AMIRAS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. Armenian Bibliography Library. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
Sources in Armenian:...Ekserdjian, Hmayeag...
- ^ "David Patrick Martin Ekserdjian". NPG - London. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- ^ "David Ekserdjian". The Conversation Media Group. 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
Formerly a Fellow of Balliol and Corpus Christi, Oxford, since 2004 I have taught at the University of Leicester, but I spent the years 1991 to 1997 working for Christie's and was Editor of Apollo magazine from 1997 to 2004. Among my most recent books are The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece: Between Icon and Narrative (2021) and Albrecht Dürer: Art and Autobiography (2023). I have also organised or co-organised numerous exhibitions and written their catalogues, including Bronze (2012) at the Royal Academy and - with Tom Henry - Raphael (2022) at the National Gallery, and served as a Trustee of the National Gallery, Tate, and Sir John Soane's Museum. In 2017-18, I was the Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford.
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