Joshua Bruyn

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Joshua Bruyn (left) in 1962

Josua Bruyn (born March 27, 1923 , † June 10, 2011 ) was a Dutch art historian who taught at the University of Amsterdam . He was a member of the Rembrandt Research Project .

Life

Josua Bruyn studied art history at Utrecht University , which he left in 1948. He then worked at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam , where he helped cataloging Old Master paintings . Bruyn was one of the collaborators in the exhibition Three Centuries of Portraiture in the Netherlands ( Drie eeuwen portret in Nederland ), which was shown at the Rijksmuseum in 1952. In 1954 Josua Bruyn moved to the Art History Institute of the University of Utrecht, where he wrote his dissertation on the painting Fountain of the Life of a Student by Jan van Eyck .

In 1961 Josua Bruyn became professor of art history at the University of Amsterdam . At the same time he published articles on Dutch painters such as Jan van Scorel , David Bailly , Rembrandt van Rijn . The latter formed a focus of his work, so that in 1968 he was one of the founders of the Rembrandt Research Project . As part of the project, he worked with Bob Haak , Jan van Gelder , Jan Emmens , Simon Levie and Pieter van Thiel . In 1979 Bruyn was elected rector of Amsterdam University, which he left in 1985. In 1993 he left the Rembrandt Research Project together with Levie, van Thiel and Haak, so that the organization of the project remained with Ernst van de Wetering .

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