OTTAWA, ON.- The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) announced today the appointment of Paul Lang, an expert in neo-classical European Art, as its new Deputy Director and Chief Curator. An accomplished scholar who holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Geneva, Mr. Lang has been Chief Curator at the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève in Switzerland since 2000. He will assume his new role at the NGC on April 1, 2011. During his tenure at the Musée d’art et d’histoire, Mr. Lang oversaw the acquisition of several important works, most recently Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot’s masterpiece La Jeune femme à la fontaine (c. 1860), purchased in June 2010. He organized numerous exhibitions, including the widely praised Richard Wagner, Visions d’artistes. D’Auguste Renoir à Anselm Kiefer, presented at the Musée Rath in Geneva in 2005-06 and at le Musée de la Musique in Paris in 2007-08, as well as Corot en Sui