Wim Pijbes

Wim Pijbes

Wim Pijbes. Photo: Vincent Mentzel
Born 9 October 1961
Veendam
Nationality Netherlands

Curriculum Vitae

Wim Pijbes is a Dutch art historian and General Director of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.[1] His initiatives there include the museum’s complete refurbishment and reopening in April 2013 and the opening of the Philips Wing for photography and temporary exhibitions. In addition he developed and opened RIJKS®,[2] the museum's restaurant. With the reopening of the Rijksmuseum, Pijbes also launched Rijksstudio; the first digital application to offer images of the museum's collection to everyone, free of charge. The Rijksmuseum was the first museum worldwide to ban copyrights and open the collection with a radical approach. The open-content museum dates to 2011, when the Rijksmuseum made the first of 208,000 images available for download at no cost after curators found more than 10,000 low-quality scans of one of its Vermeers online. [3] Pijbes lectures and writes extensively on art, artists, the role of museums in society, copyright and on the digitalization of art.[4]

Wim Pijbes holds a position of the Humanitas Professorship in the History of Art at the University of Cambridge,[5] is Chair of the Supervisory Board of Droog Design, Member of the Supervisory Board of Broadview Holding, Board member of the Rembrandt Society and Board member of the Caldic Museum.

From August 1st Wim Pijbes will become General Director of Museum Voorlinden, near the Dutch coast between the towns of Scheveningen and Wassenaar.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ Curriculum vitae, rijksmuseum.nl
  2. ↑ Rijks, AmsterdamFinancial Times
  3. ↑ Don’t charge, make images free. Wim Pijbes has dropped charges for reproductions of the Rijksmuseum’s collection. The Art Newspaper, Number 257, 2014
  4. ↑ A Museum at the Forefront of Digitization, The New York Times, 13 mei 2015
  5. ↑ Wim Pijbes announced as Humanitas Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge ArtDaily
  6. ↑ Director of Rijksmuseum Is Stepping Down After 8 Years, The New York Times
  7. ↑ Wim Pijbes to leave Rijksmuseum for new museum on Dutch coast, The Art Newspaper
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