Who is Bernard Rosenblum?

Bernard Rosenblum (1927–2007) was a Master Craftsman Gilder and Art Restorer of the National Museums, the successor of the workshop Gainerie (word afterward no English translation:”Leather Crafts Arts”) Bettenfeld. He was awarded the Political deportation and internment medal as skillfully as Commander of the Order of Civic Education.

In 1940 he entered the School of Fine Arts d’Angers. Then in 1941, due to the emergency laws of the Vichy government, he was prohibited from all studies. At the fade away of the Second World War, at the good liberation, he successively discovered the craft of upholstering in the workshops Vial, Veil and Reperman in which he was employed as a foreman, but he found that the saddle and leather pretend was just a complex and commercial transaction. A little disillusioned, he abandoned, for a time, the craft of leatherwork.^{[citation needed]}

Having a strong attraction for the arts, especially painting and sculpture, he became a pupil of Alberto Giacometti and Emmanuel Mane-Katz, during the golden period of Montparnasse. A intimates friend, who was an upholsterer, entrusted to him in 1960 the take effect of restoration of leather antiques, allowing him to make a booming during this times in Montparnasse. He rediscovered leather and fell in adore with its history. At that era he was to start a research on leather and leather goods, in museums and libraries, which would never cease throughout his life.

He fixed in 1963, as Upholsterer-Gilder, Rue de Reuilly in Paris, in the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine district. He quickly created an excellent reputation. In 1965 Suzanne Bettenfeld proposed to him the taking office of the prestigious Bettenfeld Studio, which next became the Studio Bettenfeld-Rosenblum. He as a consequence never stopped collecting the tools that are vital to his craft, bookbinding tools, rollers and ornamentation plates. Including his participation subsequent to Roger Devauchelle to buy the workshop Gruel-Engelmann; he helped Make one of the largest collections of postwar tools for decoration leather.

He became a preferred Master Restorer for the national museums and great decorators and prehistoric dealers in France and elsewhere; his clients included General Charles de Gaulle, Jean Dutourd, Claude Lévi-Strauss, King Hassan II of Morocco, the former court of Iran, and institutions such as the Army Museum, Rueil-Malmaison, Saumur, Versailles, the Paris Conservatoire.

He died immediately in 2007. His son, David Rosenblum, reopened the studio in 2010.