Wim van Krimpen

Wim van Krimpen (born in Groningen on 2 March 1941) is a Dutch art historian, art dealer and gallery owner of Galerie Wim van Krimpen,[2] and art gallery director.[3] He was director at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden and the Kunstmuseum Den Haag in The Hague.[4]

Wim van Krimpen
Portrait by Helena van der Kraan, 2009-2011
Born2 March 1941 (1941-03-02) (age 82)
Groningen , Netherlands
Occupation(s)Art historian,;[1] gallery owner ; museum director
AwardsBenno Premsela Prize
Websitewimvankrimpen.nl

Biography

Youth and early career

Van Krimpen was the son of a Christian minister.[5] After the war the family moved to Rotterdam, where he grew up.[6] After studying law for a few years, in 1964 Van Krimpen became of director of the Binnenhuis Ahoy fair in Rotterdam.[6]

In 1967 as director at the Rotterdam Ahoy Van Krimpen managed his first more prominent event, the Hippy Happy Beurs for teens and twens. Not only did he manage to bring Jimi Hendrix on stage in Rotterdam.[7] There where performances of the Bee Gees, The Kinks, Keith West, Soft Machine and Pink Floyd as well.[8]

In 1978 he started his first own gallery under the name Article. On a trip to the States he learned, that everybody out there had started under their own name, so he changed it into the Galerie Wim van Krimpen.[4]

Later career

The galerie van Krimpen lasted two years in Amsterdam, and moved to Rotterdam in 1979.[3] In 1988 he was appointed interim-directeur of the Kunsthal at that time yet to be built. Two year after its opening in 1992 he became its director until 1998. In 1998 he moved to the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden and in 2000 he was back in The Hague, where he served as director of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag until 2009.[3]

In 2011 he was awarded the Benno Premsela Prize for his stimulating role in the field of visual arts, design or architecture.

References
  1. Loes de Fauwe. "Wim van Krimpen vertrekt uit Kunstraad." Trouw, 12 januari 2012.
  2. Galerie Wim van Krimpen ; group / Dutch ; art gallery, at rkd.nl. Last updated 2016-06-15.
  3. Wim van Krimpen ; male / Dutch ; museum director, gallery owner at rkd.nl. Last updated 2017-10-18
  4. Bob Witman, "De week van Galerie Van Krimpen," de Volkskrant, 16 september 2011.
  5. "Van Krimpen verlaat Haags museum," de Volkskrant, 7 April 2008.
  6. Bart Jungmann and Anneke Stoffelen, "Dwingende, ideeënrijke spullenbaas", de Volkskrant, 18 December 2007 (in Dutch)
  7. Dave Datema, "Gitaarlegende Jimi Hendrix in Rotterdam", at Vergeten Verhalen,nl, 27 september 2015.
  8. "Hippy Happy in Rotterdam". Het vrije volk : democratisch-socialistisch dagblad, Rotterdam, 1967/11/08, p. 13.
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