Roger Diederen

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Roger Diederen (* 1965 in Heerlen , Netherlands ) is a Dutch art historian .

Life

Diederen studied art history and archeology at the Universiteit van Amsterdam from 1984 to 1990 with a focus on Dutch art of the 17th century . In 2004 he received his doctorate on the orientalist painter Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842–1923). From 1990 to 1991 he worked at the Research Center of the J. Paul Getty Museum , Los Angeles and from 1991 to 1994 he worked in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. In 1993 he was a fellow of the European Paintings department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York. From 1994 to 2000 he was a research fellow at the Cleveland Museum of Art , where he mainly worked on the inventory of 19th century European paintings. As a curator at the Dahesh Museum of Art , New York, he organized exhibitions in the field of academic art of the 19th century and expanded the institution's collection with purchases. In 2006 he switched to the art gallery of the Hypo-Kulturstiftung in Munich as a curator , where he has been director since 2013.

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