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.
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