Acquisitions: Fine and Applied Arts, and History

Author Biographies

• Marion Anker

  Marion Anker is a junior curator of history at the Rijksmuseum.

• Reinier Baarsen

  Reinier Baarsen is the senior curator of furniture at the Rijksmuseum, where for twenty years he was keeper of the former Department of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, and professor of History of European Decorative Arts at Leiden University.

• Dirk Jan Biemond

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

• Sander Bink

  Sander Bink specializes in the art and literature of around 1900, with the emphasis on Symbolism and Decadentism. He is working on an in-depth biography of Carel de Nerée.

• Jeroen ter Brugge

  Jeroen ter Brugge is the curator of maritime collections at the Rijksmuseum.

• Ludo van Halem

  Ludo van Halem is the curator of twentieth-century art at the Rijksmuseum.

• Jenny Reynaerts

  Jenny Reynaerts is the senior curator of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century painting at the Rijksmuseum.

• Pieter Roelofs

  Pieter Roelofs is head of paintings and sculpture at the Rijksmuseum. From 2006 to 2018 he was the Rijksmuseum’s curator of seventeenth-century Dutch painting.

• 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.

• Amir Sidharta

  Amir Sidharta is currently the Director of Sidharta Auctioneer, an auction house in Jakarta specializing in Indonesian art. He is also the curator of the Universitas Pelita Harapan Museum in Tangerang.

• Eveline Sint Nicolaas

  Eveline Sint Nicolaas is a senior curator of history at the Rijksmuseum.