Pierre Schneider

Pierre Schneider (1925–2013) was an art historian and critic specializing in French modernism. Born in Antwerp, Belgium, he received his PhD in literature from Harvard University in 1953 before moving to Paris, where he worked with Georges Duthuit on the Henri Matisse archives. He later served as an art critic for L’Express and contributed to ARTnews. Schneider authored several studies on French painters, including a major monograph on Matisse, published in 1984.