Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann (born March 6, 1923 in Naarden , North Holland Province , † August 5, 2017 in New York ) was a Dutch-American art historian .
Life
Haverkamp-Begemann spent his early youth in the colony of Kemerovo ( Siberia ), where his idealistic-minded father worked for a number of years. After the family returned to Holland in the mid-1930s, they lived in Haarlem . After studying art history at the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht , he worked from 1950 as a curator for drawing and painting at the Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam . He married an American in Amsterdam in 1954, and the marriage had three children.
In 1958 Begemann did his doctorate with Jan Gerrit van Gelder at the University of Utrecht with a dissertation on the Rotterdam painter Willem Pietersz. Buytewech . In the following year he moved with his family to the United States , where he received a professorship at Yale University after brief positions at Princeton and Harvard . The management of the art gallery at the university was also connected with this. Begemann left Yale in 1978 to take up a professorship at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University . After completing his official teaching activities, there was a fruitful period of research as a private scholar , during which the focus was on Dutch art history.
Begemann's scientific potential, his extensive knowledge and bibliographical experience, which was visible in his well-known private library , was made use of by many art historical institutions. He worked as the editor of 14 catalog volumes of the Robert Lehman Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. From 2001 to 2004 he headed the department for drawings and prints at the Pierpont Morgan Library and was co-editor of the magazine Master Drawings for many years . He was also on the advisory board of the Rembrandt Research Project in Amsterdam.
Begemann had a large number of students who were also active in his field, including Ronni Baer, Alan Chong, Stephanie Dickey, Wayne Franitz, Emilie Gordenker, Thomas Kren, Otto Naumann, Nanette Salomon, Joaneath Spicer and Peter Sutton.
Honors
Begemann was a knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau and since 1978 a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . On the occasion of his sixtieth birthday in 1983, a festschrift (→ literature) was dedicated to him.
Works (selection)
- Willem Buytewech . (Diss.), Amsterdam 1959.
- Hercules Seghers . Art and Architecture in the Netherlands. Amsterdam 1968.
- Hercules Seghers. The Complete Etchings. The Hague 1973.
- The Achilles Series. Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard , Antwerp 1975.
- Art and Autoradiography: Insights into the Genesis of Paintings by Rembrandt , Van Dyck , and Vermeer . New York 1982.
- Rembrandt. The Nightwatch . Princeton 1982.
literature
- Anna-Marie S. Logan (Ed.): Essays in Northern European Art: presented to Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann on his Sixtieth Birthday. Davaco, Doornspijk 1983.
Web links
- Codart.nl - Obituary
- Historians of Netherlandish Art - Obituary
- Journal for Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings - Obituary
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch-American art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naarden , North Holland Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th August 2017 |
| Place of death | New York City |