Recent Acquisitions

Author Biographies

• Dirk Jan Biemond

  Dirk Jan Biemond is the curator of metals at the Rijksmuseum.

• Gijs van der Ham

  Gijs van der Ham was since 2001 senior curator of history and the curator of coins and medals at the Rijksmuseum. He retired in 2021.

• Hester Kuiper

  Hester Kuiper is project coordinator of provenance research at the History Department of the Rijksmuseum. She specializes in academic research in the period of the Second World War.

• Esther L. Pitoun

  Esther L. Pitoun studied art history at the University of Amsterdam. As a research intern at the Rijksmuseum’s Sculpture Department, she was involved in the study of the two works by François du Quesnoy that recently entered the department.

• Jenny Reynaerts

  Jenny Reynaerts is senior curator of paintings at the Rijksmuseum. She specializes in nineteenth-century painting and is in charge of the project Women of the Rijksmuseum.

• Frits Scholten

  Frits Scholten is the senior curator of sculpture at the Rijksmuseum and holds the Rijksmuseum Chair of the History of Western Sculpture at the University of Amsterdam.

• Matthias Ubl

  Matthias Ubl is the curator of early Netherlandish and German painting and stained glass at the Rijksmuseum.