HISTORIC INTERIOR AND DECORATIVE ARTS

About the section:

Sectievoorzitter:

Ms. prof. dr. Willemijn Fock (emeritus of the University of Leiden) - Contact:

info@onderzoekschoolkunstgeschiedenis.nl

Section Meeting (-s):

2012: 2 March, Gemeentemuseum The Hague.

Program: see Dutch page

2011: 4 March, speakers and topics:

Mr. drs. T. Boers, The restoration of the Amsterdam church ‘Heart, also known as Our Lord in the Attic’; Ms. dr. Yvonne Brentjens,  Living à la Berlage. The World behind the customer registers of ’t Binnenhuis (1900-1929); Ms. prof. dr. Anna Bergmans, Antoine Plateau (Tournai 1759-Brussels 1815), an excellent decoration painter; Ms. drs. Aagje Gosliga  ‘Le meilleur métier’. Research into the role of Dutch upholsterers in the decoration of the interior: an inventory.   

2010: 19 March, speakers and topics:

Mr. A.J. van Scherpenzeel MA, Beware: modernity! H.P. Mutters and son in the twentieth century; Mr. drs. L. Booij, Lalique in the Netherlands; Ms. prof. dr. C.W. Fock, The importance of colour, restoration problems concerning the University of Leiden; Mr. drs. P. M. le Blanc, The deception of restoring to its original splendour: on the field of tension between authenticity and renewal in the restoration of medieval murals in the Netherlands; Ms. dr. E. Tibbe, ‘Les extrêmes se touchent’: colour and line theory in books on interior decoration and in the avant-garde, France ca. 1890.  

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