Hans J. Van Miegroet | |
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Born | Hans Joris Van Miegroet |
Died | Durham, North Carolina, U.S. | February 9, 2024
Occupation(s) | Art historian, educator |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Ghent University of California, Santa Barbara |
Thesis | Gerard David (ca. 1450-1523): Patronage and Artistic Preeminence at Bruges (1988) |
Doctoral advisor | Burr E. Wallen |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Art history |
Sub-discipline | Art market |
Institutions | Duke University |
Hans Joris Van Miegroet (died February 9,2024) was a Belgian and American art historian and educator. Primarily a scholar of the art market in Europe,Van Miegroet was professor of Art and Art History at Duke University.
Van Miegroet graduated from the University of Ghent with a Master of Arts in Art History in 1983,and then moved to the United States to earn a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California,Santa Barbara in 1988. His master's thesis was on the artist Konrad Witz,and he wrote a doctoral dissertation on Gerard David,supervised by Burr E. Wallen. [1] In that year,Van Miegroet was hired as Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University,and in 1994,was promoted to Associate Professor. [2] In 2005,he was elevated to full Professor. In the following year,Van Miegroet became chair of the art history department,a post that he held until 2014. [3] He died on February 9,2024,in a single-vehicle car crash near the Duke University campus. [4]
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