Dr Nico Van Hout: “Nurturing Art in Flanders: Antwerp, Painters, Commerce and Politics”
Lecture: Dr Nico Van Hout (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp). “Nurturing Art in Flanders: Antwerp, Painters, Commerce and Politics”
At 6 pm on Wednesday, 25 August, Dr Nico Van Hout, Head of Collection Research and Curator of Seventeenth Century Paintings at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp will give an English-language lecture titled “Nurturing Art in Flanders: Antwerp, Painters, Commerce and Politics”.
The lecture will take place at the Kadriorg Art Museum in connection with the 2021 international major exhibition From Memling to Rubens: The Golden Age of Flanders, which introduces a rich selection of The Phoebus Foundation’s collection of 15th- to 17th- century Flemish art and provides a cross-section of the diversity of Belgian art from that period.
Nico Van Hout is the Head of Collection Research and Curator of Seventeenth Century Paintings at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Van Hout is an internationally renowned expert on Rubens’s art who has curated numerous exhibitions of the master’s works, including the large review exhibition Rubens and His Legacy at the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels and the Royal Academy of Arts London in 2014–2015. He has also published numerous research papers on various aspects of Rubens’s work. In addition to his education in art history, Van Hout has also worked as a painting conservator. His research also deals with 17th-century Flemish art generally. More specifically, he has focused on the study of the works of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, including an in-depth study of the technical aspects of their paintings, their studio practices etc. In recent years, Van Hout has devoted his time to preparing the museum’s new permanent exhibition. Extensive renovation of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp has been going on for a decade. Hopefully the renovated museum will be opening its doors in the near future.
Nico Van Hout’s lecture is supported by the General Representation of the Government of Flanders in Poland and the Baltic States.
For additional information, see https://kunstimuuseum.ekm.ee/en/visitors-reminder/
