Yvonne Bleyerveld appointed senior curator at the RKD

1 May 2017 | The Hague

Effective 1 September 2017 dr. Yvonne Bleyerveld has been appointed senior curator of drawings and prints in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD). She will be the successor to Erik Löffler, who died last year. Sad as we still are by the demise of our dear friend and colleague Erik, we are very pleased by the news that Yvonne will be taking over from him. She is a renowned specialist in the field of OMD and OMP, as well as member of the editorial board of Delineavit et Sculpsit, and therefore ideally suited for the job. During the last years she has been working free-lance, especially on collection catalogues of main collections of OMD in our country (a.o. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Teylers Museum).

For more information, see the website of the RKD (in Dutch) and the Codart website (in English)

Catalogue of 16th-century Netherlandish drawings in the Teylers

Yvonne Bleyerveld & Ilja M. Veldman, The Netherlandish Drawings of the 16th Century in Teylers Museum, Leiden (Primavera Pers) 2016

The collection of drawings in Teylers Museum has an international reputation. This publication is part of a series of collection catalogues wich includes volumes on Italian drawings of the 15th and 16th century, Dutch drawings dating from 1575-1630 and those from 1740-1800. The catalogue describes the 257 Netherlandish drawings by artists born before 1581. The most important group consists of no fewer than 125 sheets by Hendrick Goltzius; the largest collection of his drawings in the world. Other artists incuded in this catalogue are, among others, Jacques de Gheyn II, Joannes Stradanus, Abraham Bloemaert, Jacob Matham, Mathijs and Paul Bril, Karel van Mander, Maerten de Vos, Dick Crabeth, Pieter Aertsen, Pieter Cornelisz Kunst, Jan Swart van Groningen and Pieter Coecke van Aelst, The texts are written by professor emerita Ilja M. Veldman and dr Yvonne Bleyerveld, with contributions by dr. Michiel Plomp and dr. Bert Schepers.

296 pag., c. 250 ill. in full colour, bound
ISBN 978-90-5997-228-5
price: €49.50

For more information, see the Primavera Press website.

Julian Brooks new senior curator OMD at the Getty

1 August 2016 | Los Angeles

Dr Julian Brooks, a curator of Old Master drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum since 2004, succeeds Dr Lee Hendrix, who retired at the end of June following a 32-year career at the Getty. For more information, see the museum’s announcement.

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.

Michael Hering new director of the Munich Print Room

12 January 2016 | Dresden

Effective 1 January Dr. Michael Hering has been appointed the new director of the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich. He is the successor of Dr. Michael Semff, who retired in May last year. Hering, a specialist in contemporary graphic art, was curator of P&D and Photography since 2010 and during the last year also interim director of the Kupferstich-Kabinett der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Dresden, after the departure of Prof. Bernhard Maaz to Munich.

For more information, see the Bavarian Culture Ministry’s website.