Recent Asian Acquisitions

Author Biographies

• 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 described the collections of the Amsterdam patrician family Backer. She has been connected to the Rijksmuseum since 2009, where her responsibilities have included contributing to the museum’s refurbishment leading up to the reopening. She is one of the curators of the Asia in Amsterdam exhibition.

• Menno Fitski

  Menno Fitski has been curator of East Asian Art at the Rijksmuseum since 1997. He was responsible for the display of the Pavilion of Asian art in the newly renovated Rijksmuseum. His book Kakiemon Porcelain: A Handbook was published in 2011.

• Marije Jansen

  Marije Jansen is junior curator of Japanese Prints at the Rijksmuseum, where she is responsible for the collection of Japanese prints and illustrated books. She studied Japanese language and culture at the University of Leiden, specializing in East Asian art and material culture. At the University of Amsterdam she studied Art History. She has published on a wide variety of subjects related to Japanese prints and is currently working on an exhibition and catalogue about twentieth-century Japanese prints. Marije Jansen is a curator thanks to Bervoets Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds.

• Anna A. Slaczka

  Anna A. Slaczka PhD has worked as curator of South Asian Art at the Rijksmuseum since 2009.
  Her current activities include studies into the production and use of Chola bronzes and the
  iconography of Tamil village deities. Recent publications include Temple Consecration Rituals in South India: Text and Archaeology, Leiden 2007; ‘Temples, Inscriptions and Misconceptions: Charles-Louis Fábri and the Khajuraho Apsaras’, The Rijksmuseum Bulletin 3 (2012), pp. 212-31;
  ‘Dancing Siva Images from Bengal’, in M.H. Bhuiyan (ed.), Studies in South Asian Heritage, Dhaka 2015, pp. 125-55. Anna A. Slaczka is a curator thanks to Staal aan Zee, Tata Steel Nederland b.v./Rijksmuseum Fonds.