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CODART Courant

CODART Courant

Published 1998-2011

The CODART Courant was the bi-annual newsletter of the international council for curators of Dutch and Flemish art, published by CODART from 1998 to 2011. It focused on Dutch and Flemish art in museums all around the world and the curators in charge of these collections. The CODART Courant featured news headings, introductions to lesser known collections, opinion articles and interviews concerning the work of the curator and news about CODART and its activities.

From 2012 we have published the Courant‘s successor, the CODART eZine, which in 2019 has been succeeded by CODARTfeatures.

All 21 issues are available in PDF-format below. A selection of articles have been republished as a feature.

CODART Courant 21
Spring 2011
Courant 19
  • Gerdien Verschoor, Old Masters, modern times
  • Olga KotkovĂĄ and Isabelle De Jaegere, Roelandt Savery: painter in the services of Emperor Rudolf II
  • Hanna Benesz, Frescoes after Otto van Veen’s Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata in Bielinski Palace at Otwock Wielki
    Hanna Benesz provided us with more images of the palace then we could fit in the paper version. Please find all the images here.
  • Eero Ehanti, The Vrouw Maria and the Braamcamp paintings
  • Paul Knolle, Rijksmuseum Twenthe
  • Angelika Lorenz, LWL-Landesmuseum in MĂŒnster
  • Teresa Posada Kubissa, Dutch painting in the Spanish royal collections
  • Nancy Kay, Art, music and spectacle in the age of Rubens
  • George Keyes, interviewed by Victoria Sancho Lobis

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CODART Courant 20
Summer 2010
Courant 19
  • Gerdien Verschoor, The Other
  • Nadine Orenstein and Stijn Alsteens, Dutch and Flemish drawings, prints and books recently acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Gero Seelig, Five paintings related to Gerard Dou in Schwerin
  • Antoine M. Wilmering, Getty adresses skills gap in the structural conservation of panel paintings
  • Tanya Paul, The Philbrook Museum of Art
  • Leila Mehulic, 17th-century Dutch painting in the Mimara Museum in Zagreb
  • Eric Domela Nieuwenhuis, Picture frames in the Netherlands
  • Gerdien Verschoor, Interview with the Honorable Ambassador J. William Middendorf II
  • Piotr Borusowski, Interview with Lia Gorter

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CODART Courant 19
Winter 2009
Courant 19
  • Gerdien Verschoor, From The Hague to Yasnaya Polyana and back
  • Jeroen Giltaij and Friso Lammertse, The history of the 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
  • Dariusz Kacprzak and Priscilla Valkeneers, Jacob Jordaens’ Madonna and Child in a garland of flowers and fruit
  • Amy Walsh, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
  • Karen Hearn, Netherlandish artists in the Tate Collection
  • Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings in Raleigh
  • Huigen Leeflang, Interview with Antony Griffiths
  • Christi Klinkert, Interview with Peter van den Brink

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CODART Courant 18
Summer 2009
Courant 17
  • Gerdien Verschoor, A lively exchange of ideas
  • Thomas Ketelsen, On the typology of Dutch 16th-century drawings
  • Manfred Sellink, Yao-Fen You, and Olena Zhivkova, Crisis! Crisis?
  • Reports on the Market of ideas session from the CODART TWAALF congress by market table leaders
  • Rudi Ekkart, Dutch and Flemish portraits in Finland
  • Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis and Hillie Smit, In Maastricht: treasures from the tapestry collection of the Rijksmuseum
    in Amsterdam
  • David A.H.B. Taylor, Dutch and Flemish portraits in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
  • Frank Bergevoet, Mobility of curators: A proposal to CODART members
  • Tom van der Molen, Interview with Fred G. Meijer

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CODART Courant 17
Winter 2008
Courant 17
  • Gerdien Verschoor, Bringing back the muse
  • Suzanne Laemers, A special on attribution: a partnership between CODART and the RKD
  • Fritz Koreny, Jan Provoost in Genoa and Florence
  • Ewoud Mijnlieff, Drawings XL
  • Peter Black, Dutch and Flemish art at Glasgow University
  • Monique Dickhaut, Deaccession of an “orphaned” collection in Maastricht
  • Farida Simonetti, Flemish silver in the Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Spinola in Genoa
  • Carel Blotkamp, CODART, let’s get modern!
  • Willem Jan Hoogsteder interviewed by Gerdien Verschoor, A CODART maecenas: benefactor and partner
  • Ruud Priem, Interview with Hanna Benesz (Interested in the full interview? Click here.)

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CODART Courant 16
Summer 2008
Courant 16
  • Gerdien Verschoor, No Cookies
  • Lawrence W. Nichols, Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? CODART after ten years
  • Eric Domela Nieuwenhuis and Ewoud Mijnlieff, interviewed by Gerdien Verschoor, In someone else’s shoes: curatorial mobility in practice
  • Rinske Jurgens and Remmelt Daalder, interviewed by Marina Fidder, Amsterdam expertise and Rotterdam flair: a unique collaboration between two maritime museums
  • Daniel Christiaens, The Maagdenhuismuseum, Antwerp
  • Catalina Macovei, Flemish artists working in Italy: drawings from the library of the Romanian Academy
  • Rhea Sylvia Blok, A new edition of Frits Lugt’s Les marques de collections de dessins & d’estampes
  • Alice C. Taatgen, Becoming a real curator: CODART’s role in promoting promising young curators
  • Görel Cavalli-Björkman, interviewed by Marrigje Rikken

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CODART Courant 15
Winter 2007
Courant 15
  • Gerdien Verschoor, CODART “Light”
  • Olga KotkovĂĄ, Flemish paintings of the 17th century from the National Gallery in Prague sent to Japan
  • Jennifer Scott, Flemish paintings from the Royal Collection on show in Edinburgh, Brussels and London
  • Marianne Koskimies-Envall, Netherlandish art in the Ostrobothnian Museum in Vaasa: conservation and attribution
  • Marta GoƂabek and Dominika Walawender-Musz, Cataloguing war losses from the WilanĂłw Palace Museum in Warsaw
  • Veronique Vandekerchove, Museum Leuven: architecture and installation hand in hand
  • Robert Hoozee and CathĂ©rine Verleysen, The new Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Ghent
  • Wietske Donkersloot, Interview with Frits Duparc

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CODART Courant 14
Summer 2007
Courant 14
  • Gerdien Verschoor, View
  • Shlomit Steinberg, Jan Both, Italianate landscape with figures – work in progress
  • Teresa Calero MartĂ­nez de Irujo, The Dutch influence on viceregal Mexican furniture
  • Stephen Borys, News from the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida
  • Oscar Antuña Benitez, The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba – conservation and exhibition
  • Jef Schaeps, The print room of Leiden University – online acces to prints and drawings
  • Lars Hendrikman, The Rijksmuseum Maastricht – collection mobility and joint research output
  • Wietske Donkersloot, The exhibition catalogue: curse or blessing?
  • Sabine PĂ©not, Interview with Paul Huvenne

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CODART Courant 13
Winter 2006
Courant 13
  • Gerdien Verschoor, CODART’S Friends
  • Blaise Ducos and Carel van Tuyll van Serooskerken, Projects at the Louvre for the Écoles du Nord
  • ZoltĂĄn KovĂĄcs, A recently identified Cavalry skirmish by Pieter Quast in a Hungarian private collection
  • Liubov Savinskaya, The Dutch paintings in the collection of Prince Nicolaj Borisovich Yusupov (1750-1831)
  • Sander Paarlberg, Paintings around 1700 in Cologne, Dordrecht and Kassel
  • Dorothee Hansen, Kunsthalle Bremen
  • Mary Kisler, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
  • Nils Ohrt, Speaking Dutch in Denmark: The Nivagaards Malerisamling
  • Adriaan E. Waiboer, Interview with Jan Piet Filedt Kok

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CODART Courant 12
Summer 2006
Courant 12
  • Gerdien Verschoor, Rembrandt overkill?
  • Sylvain Boyer, Les maĂźtres du Nord at the MusĂ©e Calvet in Avignon
  • Lien de Keukelaere, The Rogier van der Weyden exhibition in Leuven in 2009
  • Antoni Ziemba, Two (new) Rembrandts in Warsaw
  • Svitlana Stets, The Lviv Art Gallery
  • Diederik BakhuĂżs, The MusĂ©e des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
  • Judith Mann, The St. Louis Art Museum
  • Arjen Kok, The ICN and the sale of items from museum collections
  • Hosting curators of the CODART NEGEN study trip to the Netherlands
  • Karen Hearn, Silke Gatenbröcker and Larry Nichols, Reviews of the CODART NEGEN congress
  • Alastair Laing, Review of the CODART NEGEN study trip

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CODART Courant 11
January 2006
Courant 11
  • Gerdien Verschoor, CODART: plans, friends, and a flute play by Jacob van Eyck
  • Ulrich Becker, New galleries for Old Masters in Schloss Eggenberg in Graz
  • Geert Souvereyns, Introducing the vlaamsekunstcollectie
  • Julia Tatrai, Barendt Fabritius Manoah’s sacrifice in the SzĂ©pmĂŒvĂ©szeti MĂșzeum in Budapest
  • Hildelies Balk, Hannema’s Old Master paintings in the new Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle
  • Dariusz Kacprzak, Introducing the collection of the Muzeum Sztuki in ƁódĆș
  • Vadim Sadkov and Marina Senenko, Recent acquisitions and exhibitions in the Pushkin State Museum of Art in Moscow
  • Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

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CODART Courant 10
June 2005
Courant 10
  • Peter van den Brink, Plans for the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen
  • Gregor J.M. Weber, News from the GemĂ€ldegalerie Alte Meister in Kassel
  • Adriaan E. Waiboer, Introducing the collection of the National Gallery in Dublin
  • Bob van den Boogert, Rembrandt 400 in 2006
  • Hanna Benesz, Events in Poland in 2004
  • Dragana Kovacic, Introducing the graphic collection of the National Museum in Belgrade
  • Olena Zhivkova, Introduction the collection of the Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum of Art in Kiev
  • Ron Spronk, An exhibition project on Jan Provoost
  • Deborah Meijers and RenĂ©e Kistemaker, The paper museum of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg
  • Görel Cavalli-Björkman, Karin SidĂ©n and Börje Magnusson, Dutch and Flemish Art in Sweden: an overview

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CODART Courant 9
December 2004
Courant 9
  • Helena Risthein, The Creation of Eve: notes about a painting and a related print in the Art Museum of Estonia
  • Christian Tico Seifert, Introducing the NiederlĂ€ndisches Forum in Berlin
  • Natalja Markova, News from the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow
  • Görel Cavalli Björkman, The collection of Dutch and Flemish art of the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm
  • Lawrence W. Nichols, Introducing the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC)

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CODART Courant 8
June 2004
Courant 8
  • Olga KotkovĂĄ, A birthday greeting to Hana SeifertovĂĄ, curator of the National Gallery in Prague
  • Stijn Alsteens, Activities of the Fondation Custodia in Paris
  • IldikĂł Ember, News from the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest
  • Catherine Philips, News from the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg
  • Antoni Ziemba, The Low Countries and Poland: a history of artistic connections
  • Hanna Benesz, Early Netherlandish, Dutch and Flemish paintings in Polish collections
  • Joanna Tomicka, Dutch and Flemish prints in major Polish collections
  • Maciej Monkiewicz, 16th- to 18th-century Flemish and Dutch drawings in Polish collections
  • Krystyna Gutowska-Dudek, The Dutch and Flemish paintings housed in Wilanow Palace Museum
  • Wanda M. RudziƄska, The Tilman van Gameren archive in the print room of Warsaw University Library
  • Rulers of Poland 14th-18th century
  • Index of collectors and patrons of Dutch and Flemish art in Poland

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CODART Courant 7
December 2003
Courant 7
  • Alisa Bunbury and Ted Gott, News from the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne
  • David de Witt, News from the collections of Dutch and Flemish art in Canada
  • Stijn Alsteens, Current projects of the Fondation Custodia in Paris
  • Uta Neidhardt, The GemĂ€ldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden after the floods in 2002
  • Thea Vignau-Wilberg, News from the collections of Dutch and Flemish art in Munich
  • Raffaella Colace, Bert W. Meijer’s influential role in study and research projects on Dutch and Flemish art in Italy
  • Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato, News from the collections of Dutch and Flemish art in Japan
  • Maria Ordeanu, News from the Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu
  • Axel RĂŒger, News from the collections of Dutch and Flemish art in the United Kingdom and Ireland
  • Gary Schwartz, A typical CODART story: the reconstruction of a polyptych by Juan de Flandes
  • JosĂ© Enrique Torres and Fernando Villegas, The influence and uses of Flemish painting in colonial Peru

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CODART Courant 6
June 2003
Courant 6
  • Peter Schoon, In memory of Angela Tamvaki, curator of the National Gallery in Athens
  • Anton Henri Berden, A very cordial reception for Dutch and Flemish art in Brazil
  • Jorge Victor de AraĂșjo Souza, An engraving of the Last Judgment in the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro
  • Sander Paarlberg, The Golden Age of Dordrecht exhibition in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago de Chile
  • Maria del Carmen Rippe Moro, News from the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba
  • Hana SeifertovĂĄ, Recent events in the National Gallery in Prague
  • Kadi Polli, News from the Kadriorg Art Museum in Tallinn
  • JĂșlia TĂĄtrai, Current projects of the SzĂ©pmĂ»vĂ©szeti MĂșzeum in Budapest
  • Lia Gorter and Bernard Vermet, The collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings of the National Museum in Belgrade
  • Alexander Vergara, News from the Museo Nacional del Prado

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Codart Courant 4 & 5
December 2002
Courant 4
  • Carl Depauw, The exhibition Early Netherlandish drawings in the Rubenshuis in Antwerp
  • Zuzana Paternostro, The history of the collection of the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro
  • Lia Gorter, The project of the Foundation for Cultural Inventory on the Dutch and Flemish paintings of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana
  • Nils BĂŒttner, The 250th anniversary of the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig in 2004
  • Wolfgang Savelsberg, A live report on the flooding in Dessau and Wörlitz in Summer 2002
  • Gary Schwartz, The dissertation of Katharina Bechler on Schloss Oranienbaum
  • Catalina Macovei, Report on the work visit to the Netherlands to study the collection of the Library of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest
  • Gary Schwartz, Christopher Brown and Julia Lloyd Williams knighted by Queen Beatrix
  • The catalogue of the exhibition Drawing on Italy in the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh

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CODART Courant 3
December 2001
Courant 3
  • Renate Trnek, News from the collections of Dutch and Flemish art in Vienna and Innsbruck
  • Helena Risthein, News from the collections of Dutch and Flemish art in Tallinn and Tartu
  • Jochen Luckhardt and Thomas Ketelsen, News from the collections of Dutch and Flemish art in Germany
  • Daiga Upeniece, Recent events in the Museum of Foreign Art in Riga
  • IldikĂł Ember, News from the SzĂ©pmĂ»vĂ©szeti MĂșzeum in Budapest
  • Maciej Monkiewicz, News from the collections of Dutch and Flemish art in Poland

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CODART Courant 2
June 2001
Courant 2
  • Report on the CODART EEN study trip to Berlin, Brandenburg, Schwerin and Dessau (1999)
  • Report on the CODART TWEE congress on Dutch and Flemish art in Russia (1999)
  • Report on the CODART TWEE study trip to St. Petersburg and Moscow and the symposium in St. Petersburg (1999)
  • In memoriam Xenia Sergeevna Egorova
  • Report on the CODART DRIE congress on the Spanish Habsburgs and the Netherlands (2000)
  • Report on the CODART DRIE study trip to Spain (2000)
  • Report on the CODART VIER congress on Dutch and Flemish art in Romania (2001)
  • Report on the CODART VIER study trip to Romania (2001)

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CODART Courant 1
December 1998
Courant 1
  • CODART news
  • Report on the CODART EEN congress on The 17th-century collections of the House of Orange
  • Konrad Renger, The reopening of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich in 1998

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