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American art historian

Egbert Haverkamp-BegemannOON (6 March 1923 – 5 August 2017) was a Dutch Americanart historian and professor.^[1]

Career

Born in Naarden, Haverkamp-Begemann spent most of his childhood in Kemerovo and Moscow in Russia, where his father worked as an engineer.^[2] After a year in Morocco, the family returned to the Netherlands in the late 1930s.^[3] Haverkamp-Begemann finished high school in Dordrecht, and initially studied law, but soon turned to art history.^[4] He completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Art History with honors at Utrecht University in 1958.

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Haverkamp-Begemann's dissertation was on the Dutch Golden Age painterWillem Pieterszoon Buytewech, which was supervised by Jan Gerrit van Gelder.

In 1950, Haverkamp-Begemann was hired as Curator of Drawings, and later Curator of Paintings, at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. In 1959, he moved to the United States to condu In Memoriam: Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann - Historians of ..., carousel CIP