Marrigje Rikken

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Marrigje Rikken
Born1984
Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Education University of Leiden (PhD)
Occupation(s) Art historian, Curator, Museum director

Marrigje Rikken (born 1984) is a Dutch art historian, curator, and museum director, specializing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Netherlandish art. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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She received her PhD in art history from the University of Leiden, where she completed her dissertation on animal depictions in Southern Netherlandish art from 1550 to 1630 in 2016. [5] Rikken has published extensively on Netherlandish art, and particularly concerning artists from the Southern Netherlands. [6] Some of her notable works include contributions to the "CODART Canon" and the exhibition catalogue "Frans Hals and the Moderns." [7] She has also written essays and articles for various journals and books, covering topics from exotic animal paintings to color printing practices in Amsterdam during the seventeenth century. [8]

Rikken began her curatorial career as an assistant curator of seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age painting at the Rijksmuseum from 2006 to 2008. She later lectured in art history at the University of Amsterdam from 2009 to 2015. [5]

In 2014, she joined the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem as an Associate Curator of Old Masters, later becoming the Head of Collections and Exhibitions, then Head of Collections and Presentations. [9] [10] Her work at the Frans Hals Museum involved curating exhibitions such as "Frans Hals and the Moderns", and developing the museum's trans-historical collection and the Frans Hals Research Center. [11] [12] She also oversaw several important restorations, including a monumental painting in the collection by Maarten van Heemskerk. [13]

In 2024, she was appointed as the director of Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, succeeding the prior director from 2008-2021, Lidewij de Koekkoek. [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]

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  16. ↑ Marrigje Rikken Wordt Nieuwe Directeur Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar. https://www.alkmaarsdagblad.nl/regio/marrigje-rikken-wordt-nieuwe-directeur-stedelijk-museum-alkmaar. Accessed July 28, 2024.
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