Rijksmuseum appoints Charles Kang as Curator of 18th- and 19th-Century Drawings
The Rijksmuseum has appointed Charles Kang as its Curator of 18th- and 19th-Century Drawings. He succeeds Robert-Jan te Rijdt who retires this month.
Publication date: 22 December 2021 - 09:00
The Rijksmuseum has appointed Charles Kang as its Curator of 18th- and 19th-Century Drawings. He succeeds Robert-Jan te Rijdt who retires this month. Charles Kang, currently the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History Leadership at the Cleveland Museum of Art and Case Western Reserve University, will start on 1 March 2022.
We are thrilled with the appointment of Charles Kang, a talented art historian of 18th-century art with international experience and an interdisciplinary perspective.
Taco Dibbits
It is a great honor for me to steward the museum’s rich collection of 18th- and 19th-century drawings. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to develop new and compelling stories about Dutch drawing during the pivotal period of nascent modernity, especially by highlighting its traditions and innovations in the broader European and global contexts.
Charles Kang
Charles Kang
Charles Kang, 1980, studied the history of art at the University of Chicago (B.A.), Williams College (M.A.) and most recently Columbia University (Ph.D.), where he wrote his dissertation about how the use of wax by 18th-century French artists and artisans reshaped modern definitions of fine art. He previously worked at the Williams College Museum of Art, where he co-curated the exhibition Works as Progress/Work in Progress: Drawing in 18th- and 19th-century France, The Frick Collection in New York and the Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome. His areas of interest include the intersections between drawing, natural history and early ethnography, the role of drawing in ornament and three-dimensional object design, as well as the links between drawing practice and gender inequality in artistic training.
The Rijksmuseum Print Room
The Rijksmuseum Print Room collection is one of the top five collections of works on paper in the world, specializing in 17th-century prints and drawings from an international perspective. In recent years, the Print Room has made great efforts to assemble a representative overview of Dutch prints and drawings of the 20th century. The collection also includes important 19th- and 20th-century photography. The print room collection comprises more than 800,000 works on paper.
