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Six art historians introduce Netherlandish Art and Architecture at Radboud University Nijmegen Jos Koldeweij

Barbara Kruijsen

Jeroen Goudeau

Volker Manuth

Bram de Klerck

Mette Gieskes

Netherlandish art can be studied all over the world, but

true insight into its ongoing

development can be gained in the

only

Netherlands

Radboud University’s almost centennial tradition of art history teaching and research guarantees high-quality expertise and study facilities

Art is what remains after every aspect of it has been analysed

Martin Kessel

insight through

observation

direct contact with art is such

Being in

a big plus when studying it

...the power of

Netherlandish Art and Architecture

IMAGES is much GREATER

than is generally admitted David Freedberg Radboud University’s English-taught

Despite having been affiliated with several other univer­sities,

Ever since the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance,

It all starts with the pleasure of observing. Looking at works

Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen has a charming location,

Visual perception of the world around us is extremely impor-

artworks from more than one or two centuries. In Nijmegen,

I have never forgotten the alma mater. Apart from the friendly

Netherlandish paintings have been much sought-after and

of art and buildings will raise questions. Art is both visual and

overlooking the river Waal. The museum derives its name from

tant in everything we do and think. This is nothing new, but

students can devote themselves to studying the full range of

atmosphere in town and on campus, as well as

immensely popular objects. They have decorated churches,

tangible, and functions within a specific spatial and cultural

the medieval castle that once graced the nearby hillock, inhabi-

something of all times. It was exactly this fascination with the

Master’s specialisation in Netherlandish Art

Netherlandish art from the 15th century to present day,

excellent library and other study facilities, one aspect I

princely residences as well as the houses of burghers, and

context. Therefore the lectures will be alternated with a series

ted since Roman times and presently a nineteenth-

power of form and image that lured me into the academic

at Radboud University and museums nearby. The Haags

particularly valued in Nijmegen was the art history curricu-

many museums today have a substantial collection of pain-

of carefully selected field trips through the Netherlands and

century park. The museum houses an extensive collection of

discipline of art history, with special attention to medieval

and Architecture in an International

Gemeentemuseum, for instance, has the world’s largest

lum’s broad subject matter and methodology. When, in 2004, I

tings from the Low Countries. Personally, I am fascinated by

Flanders. It is only in dialogue with the real cities, buildings,

archaeological artefacts, old masters, and modern art. As a

archaeology, the applied arts and the material aspects of the

Perspective offers wonderful possibilities

collection of Mondriaan and Constant paintings, and the Van

returned to teach at Radboud University, I found that academic

the excellent craftsmanship, the variety of painting styles,

paintings, sculptures and applied art that an insight can be

curator, I am engaged in the study and presentation of the

history of the visual and decorative arts. I ended up speciali-

Gogh and Kröller-Müller museums each own hundreds of

versatility was still the rule. This is manifest in, among other

the remarkable range of subject matter and the new ap-

gained. This insight will then be deepened in the lectures. In

Valkhof’s fine art collection. After obtaining my PhD at

sing in the visual arts of the Late Middle Ages, especially city

for students from all over the world to delve

works by Van Gogh. Visiting such collections during

things, Radboud’s long-standing tradition of teaching and re-

proach to reality which distinguish the paintings by Rubens,

the end, one will always have to turn back to the works of art

Radboud University on the history of collecting, I have held

culture and religious art in North-Western Europe. Medieval

classes on Dutch and Flemish modern art provides insights

search on the various aspects and approaches of the visual arts

Rembrandt, Vermeer and their many colleagues from those

themselves and start all over again – with observing.

several positions at museums in the Netherlands. I feel

pilgrimage and profane badges, as well as the mysterious

that cannot be acquired elsewhere. For students wanting to

and architecture in the Netherlands: truly a fertile breeding-

of other schools. Besides, looking at their paintings to me is

students of Netherlandish Art will benefit greatly from the

painter Jheronimus Bosch stand at the core of my research

learn about the development of Netherlandish art through­

ground for a Master’s specialisation in that field.

one of the most fulfilling pleasures aesthetically as well as

richness of museum collections both in Nijmegen and

and teaching.

intellectually.

elsewhere in the Netherlands.

out history in social and cultural context, this Master’s programme provides a unique opportunity.

Mette Gieskes

Bram de Klerck

Volker Manuth

Jeroen Goudeau

Barbara Kruijsen

Jos Koldeweij

Assistant professor of the History of Modern Art MA at Leiden University, PhD at University of Texas at Austin (USA), curatorial assistant at Blanton Museum of Art in Austin and San Diego Museum of Art, instructor at the University of Texas at Austin, senior lecturer at the University of Texas at San Antonio, assistant professor of the History of Modern Art at Radboud University Nijmegen.

Programme coordinator and assistant professor of the History of Early Modern Art MA and PhD at Radboud University Nijmegen, lecturer at Emerson College Boston European Center, post-doctoral fellow at Leiden University, assistant professor of Cultural Studies at the Open University of the Netherlands, assist­ant professor of the History of Early Modern Art at Radboud University Nijmegen.

Professor of Early Modern and Modern Art PhD at the Freie Universität Berlin, professor of Art History (A. Bader Chair of Northern Baroque Art) at Queen’s University, Kingston (Canada), honorary curator of seventeenth-century Dutch painting at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, professor of Early Modern and Modern Art at Radboud University Nijmegen.

Assistant professor of the History of Architecture MA in History of Art and Literary Science at Leiden University, PhD at Utrecht University, researcher and policy-making official in the conservation of monuments and sites, assistant professor of the History of Architecture at Radboud University Nijmegen.

Museum curator MA in Ancient History and History of Art at Radboud University Nijmegen, PhD at Radboud University, assistant curator at Noordbrabants Museum (’s-Hertogenbosch), assistant curator at Rijksmuseum Twenthe (Enschede), curator at Limburgs Museum (Venlo), curator at Museum Het Valkhof (Nijmegen).

Professor of the History of Medieval Art MA and PhD at Utrecht University, lecturer at Utrecht University and Radboud University Nijmegen, (guest) curator at Noordbrabants Museum (’s-Hertogenbosch), Museum Catharijneconvent (Utrecht), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), Brugge Musea (Bruges) and others; professor of the History of Art (Medieval Art) at Radboud University Nijmegen.

Con c ep t & De s ig n : Bu r eau Kete l | Ph oto g ra p h y: A atja n R end ers

Few museums and art history programmes abroad feature

into the great traditions of painting, sculpture, architecture and the decorative arts in the Netherlands.

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