Erik Löffler †

1 June 2016 | The Hague

On Saturday 28 May 2016 our co-editor and secretary, Erik Löffler, curator of Drawings and Prints at the RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History), suddenly passed away, only 48 years old. 

Erik studied cultural history at Utrecht University, and also undertook a three-year training at the École des Antiquaires in Brussels. From 1997 onwards he worked at the RKD and in 1999 he entered the board of editors of Delineavit et Sculpsit and became secretary. Erik specialized in northern and southern Netherlandish drawings and prints before 1800, and published several articles in our magazine. At the RKD he was also responsible for the documentation of sculptures, tapestries and stained glass of the same period.

Our much admired, talented, helpful and humorous colleague and friend will be missed very much. As a token of our appreciation issue 41 of our magazine (to be published in December 2016) will be dedicated to him. It will contain his In Memoriam, followed by articles by his closest colleagues of Delineavit et Sculpsit and the RKD.