Acquisitions: Fine and Applied Arts, and History

Author Biographies

• Dirk Jan Biemond

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

• Menno Fitski

  Menno Fitski is the curator of East Asian art and head of Asian art at the Rijksmuseum.

• Gijs van der Ham

  Gijs van der Ham is the senior curator of history and the curator of coins and medals at the Rijksmuseum.

• Maria Holtrop

  Maria Holtrop is a curator of history at the Rijksmuseum.

• Sander Karst

  Sander Karst is a lecturer and PhD student in the History and Art History Department of the University of Utrecht. He is researching Dutch migrant artists in England.

• Suzanne van Leeuwen

  Suzanne van Leeuwen is the junior curator and conservator of jewellery at the Rijksmuseum.

• Cristina Muru

  Cristina Muru, who obtained her PhD in Linguistics in 2009, is a lecturer and adjunct professor in Linguistics at the University of Tuscia (Italy). Her research interests cover different fields including Missionary Linguistics and the History of the Language Science.

• 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.

• Anna A. Ślączka

  Anna Ślączka obtained her PhD in Indology in 2006 with her thesis Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India: Text and Archaeology (Leiden/Boston, Brill 2007). Since 2009, she has been the curator of South Asian art at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, made possible by Staal aan Zee/Rijksmuseum Fonds.

• Giovanni Paolo di Stefano

  Giovanni Paolo di Stefano is the curator of musical instruments at the Rijksmuseum, made possible by Stichting Kramer Lems/Rijksmuseum Fonds.

• Matthias Ubl

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

• Gregor J. M. Weber

  Gregor J. M. weber is head of the Fine and Decorative Arts Department at the Rijksmuseum.