Recent Acquisitions

Author Biographies

• Reinier Baarsen

  Reinier Baarsen is 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. He has written extensively on European decorative arts from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. In 2013 he published Paris 1650-1900: Decorative Arts in the Rijksmuseum.

• Dirk Jan Biemond

  Dirk Jan Biemond studied art history in Leiden and has been a curator of the Rijksmuseum’s metalwork department since 2002. He is currently working on a catalogue of the museum’s collection of Dutch silver.

• Nicole Brüderle

  Nicole Brüderle is junior curator of glass at the Rijksmuseum. She studied Art History and Medieval and Early Modern History at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen, where she also wrote her PhD dissertation. She worked as the head and coordinator of an interdisciplinary scientific research project about fifteenth- to twentieth-century glass at the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig. The findings of this research project were published in a collection catalogue in 2013.

• Femke Diercks

  Femke Diercks is junior curator of European ceramics at the Rijksmuseum. After studying Art History at the University of Groningen and internships at, among other places, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem (Mass.) and the Amsterdam Museum, she specialized in decorative arts and collection history. Her thesis describes the collections of the Amsterdam patrician family Backer. She has been working for the Rijksmuseum since 2009, where her responsibilities have included contributing to the museum’s refurbishment leading up to the reopening and co-curating the recent exhibition Asia in Amsterdam (2015-16).

• Ludo van Halem

  Ludo van Halem is a curator of twentiethcentury art at the Rijksmuseum. He is jointly responsible for the Twentieth Century Department of the Rijksmuseum

• Suzanne van Leeuwen

  Suzanne van Leeuwen has been a junior restorer/conservator of jewellery at the Rijksmuseum since 2014. In 2009, after a
  foundation course in Art History and a Master’s degree in Classical Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam, she studied Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, specializing
  in metal. Following internships at the Rijksmuseum and the British Museum she specialized in jewellery. Two items of Renaissance jewellery from the Rijksmuseum were the main subjects of her Master’s thesis. As well as compiling an inventory of the jewellery collection she concentrates on provenance research and scientific research into materials and techniques.

• Wim Pijbes

  Wim Pijbes was General Director of the Rijksmuseum from 2008 to 30 June 2016. He is an art historian specializing in Dutch art and holds a Humanitas Professorship in the History of Art at the University of Cambridge. On 1 August 2016 he became General Director of Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar.

• Frits Scholten

  Frits Scholten is senior curator of sculpture at the Rijksmuseum and holds the Rijksmuseum Chair in the History of European Sculpture at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

• Frits Scholten

  Frits Scholten is senior curator of sculpture at the Rijksmuseum and holds the Rijksmuseum Chair in the History of European Sculpture at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).