Arthistorian Liesbeth Heenk (1962) is specialized in drawings by Vincent van Gogh. She is regularly consulted regarding Van Gogh drawings.
After graduating in the History of Art at Leiden University in 1988, she worked as an assistant curator at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo. She did research on Van Gogh’s drawings and helped to organize the centenary exhibition “Vincent van Gogh: Drawings” in 1990.
“Vincent van Gogh: Drawings” exhibition at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo in 1990, celebrating the centenary of Van Gogh’s death by showing 248 of his best drawings.
In 1996 she received her doctorate at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Her PhD thesis “Vincent van Gogh’s drawings. An Analysis of their Function and Uses” was the first to deal systematically with Van Gogh’s drawn oeuvre. Most of the findings have been accepted by fellow Van Gogh scholars and were used to further research.
Liesbeth Heenk lectured widely on Van Gogh drawings, not only in her native country The Netherlands, but also at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, at the National Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the University of Brighton and at the University of Tours in France.
Between 1995 and 2009 she was employed as Senior Specialist at Christie’s in London and as a Director Business Development at Sotheby’s in Amsterdam. Since June 2009 she is an independent arthistorian. As such she has been Interim Manager of the Royal Palace in Amsterdam (www.paleisamsterdam.nl), and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Complesso del Vittoriano in Rome for the Van Gogh exhibition: “Campagna senza tempo: città moderna”. Currently she is writing the exhibition catalogue for the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo on Divisionism. The show ‘Divisionism: from Seurat via Van Gogh to Mondriaan’ will in all likelihood travel to Japan in 2013 before it can be seen in Otterlo in the summer of 2014.
For further details on her curriculum vitae see Liesbeth’s LinkedIn page: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/liesbethheenk
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome
You can consult Liesbeth Heenk for all questions concerning drawings by Vincent van Gogh.
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