Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann

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Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann

art historian and professor.[1]

Career

Born in

Art History with honors at Utrecht University in 1958. Haverkamp-Begemann's dissertation was on the Dutch Golden Age painter Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, which was supervised by Jan Gerrit van Gelder
.

In 1950, Haverkamp-Begemann was hired as Curator of Drawings, and later Curator of Paintings, at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. In 1959, he moved to the United States to conduct research at the Princeton University Institute for Advanced Study, as well as at Harvard University.[5] In the following year, Haverkamp-Begemann was named Curator of Drawings and Prints of the Yale University Art Gallery, a position which he held until 1974. In his final four years there, he chaired that department. Haverkamp-Begemann also taught art history at the school.

In 1965, Haverkamp-Begemann received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts Research.[6]

In 1978, Haverkamp-Begemann began a long tenure at the

The Morgan Library & Museum
.

In 1983, Anne-Marie S. Logan and other colleagues published a festschrift in honor of Haverkamp-Begemann titled Essays in Northern European Art: Presented to Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann on his Sixtieth Birthday.[7]

Haverkamp-Begemann was named an Officer of the

Order of Orange Nassau. He died in New York City
in 2017.

Works

  • Creative Copies: Interpretative Drawings from Michelangelo to Picasso
  • Rembrandt, the Nightwatch
  • Art And Autoradiography: Insights Into The Genesis Of Paintings By Rembrandt, Van Dyck And Vermeer
  • The Robert Lehman Collection
  • The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

See also

References

  1. ^ "In Memoriam: Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann".
  2. ^ "Delineavit".
  3. ^ "EGBERT HAVERKAMP BEGEMANN Obituary (2017) New York Times". Legacy.com.
  4. ^ "The Building of a Career in Dutch Art: Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann in Conversation with Eijk van Otterloo".
  5. ^ "Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann Passed Away". 6 August 2017.
  6. ^ "Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann".
  7. ^ "Dedication to Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann".

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