Acquisitions: Paintings

Duncan Bull is senior curator of paintings at the Rijksmuseum and deputy head of the Department of Fine and Decorative Arts. He attended the Universities of Cambridge, St Andrews and Yale, and previously worked at the National Gallery of Scotland and the Burlington Magazine. He is currently preparing a catalogue of the Rijksmuseum’s Italian paintings.

Josephina de Fouw graduated in museum studies at the Reinwardt Academy and gained her Bachelor’s degree in art history at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). At present she is taking the two-year dual master museum curator course at the UvA. As part of this programme she has spent a year working as an assistant to Dr Jenny Reynaerts (curator of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century paintings).

Ludo van Halem is the Rijksmuseum’s curator of twentieth-century art. He is jointly responsible for the Twentieth Century Department in the Rijksmuseum. Currently he is researching the relationship between the Dutch author Til Brugman and De Stijl, and as a guest curator of the Cobra Museum of Modern Art he is preparing an exhibition on Constant’s work in the 1950’s between Cobra and New Babylon.

Jenny Reynaerts is senior curator of Paintings at the Rijksmuseum. She specializes in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Dutch painting

Pieter Roelofs is the Rijksmuseum curator of seventeenth-century Dutch painting.

Matthias Ubl has been working as a junior curator of early Netherlandish paintings at the Rijksmuseum since October 2009. He is also responsible for the early German paintings as well as the collection of stained glass panels. He studied art history at the Universities of Heidelberg and London and defended his PhD on a monographic study of the Brunswick Monogrammist at the Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Jeroen van der Vliet is curator of maritime collections at the Rijksmuseum.