John Jonas Gruen born Sept. 12, 1926 in Paris, France. Educated in Europe and the United States. Mr. Gruen is a portrait photographer; art, dance and music critic. He has written countless articles, reviews, interviews, monograhs and essays for many national and international periodicals. He has lectured extensively at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York among other museums, schools and universities and hosted a dance-interview radio program--The Sound of Dance--over WNCN.
John Gruen is a writer who has written extensively about dance and individual dancers for magazines. He has written two books, The Private World of Ballet, 1975, and Erik Bruhn, Danseur Noble, 1979. He also conducted a series of programs sponsored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art involving performers and directors in the dance field.
Art critic; New York, N.Y. b. 1926.
Gruen is professionally known as John Jonas Gruen. He married Jane Wilson in 1948.