Faculty of Humanities
K.H. Broekhuijsen-Kruijer
dr. K.H. (Klara) Broekhuijsen-Kruijer
Capaciteitsgroep Kunstgeschiedenis University of Amsterdam


Herengracht 286
1016 BX Amsterdam
Room: 405

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Broekhuijsen

Klara Broekhuijsen studied Art History at the Free University (Vrije Universiteit) in Amsterdam . She graduated in 1981 with a specialization in Art History of the Middle Ages. She worked as researcher in the Manuscript Department (now Special Collections) of the Royal Library in The Hague on a system for making the images in the illuminated manuscripts of the Royal Library’s collection accessible by compiling an iconographic index. The results of this project were published in De verluchte handschriften en incunabelen van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek. (Den Haag 1985). Next she was invited to join the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam , Department of Art History, where she is currently Assistant Professor and member of the Institute for Culture and History (ICG). In 1997 she was conferred her Doctor’s degree on research on Dutch manuscript painting, called De Zwarte-ogen-meesters. De stijl en iconografie van een groep Noordnederlandse miniaturisten rond 1500, published as The Masters of the Dark Eyes. Late Medieval Manuscript Painting in Holland . She participated in several exhibitions on medieval manuscripts like ‘Kriezels, aubergines en takkenbossen. Randversiering in Noordnederlandse handschriften uit de vijftiende eeuw ‘ (1992) en ‘Praal, ernst & emotie. De wereld van het Franse middeleeuwse handschrift ‘ (2002). Since 1989 she is member of the Alexander Willem Byvanck Genootschap, a research group (financed by NOW from 1992 until 2001) aiming to catalogue all illuminated manuscripts in Dutch public collections and all Dutch manuscripts in foreign collections. Klara Broekhuijsen’s research focuses on several aspects of the Medieval illuminated book in its historical context. She is currently working on a project called Manuscript painting and workshop practices after the Master of Catherine of Cleves, Utrecht, c. 1450-c. 1475. The Master of Evert Zoudenbalch and his circle.

Recent publications

  • 'A chronological life of Christ by the Masters of Zweder van Culemborg', in: Quaerendo 41 (2011), pp. 126-138.
  • ‘The Institution of the Rosary. Establishing the context for a recently discovered copy after a lost panel by Geertgen tot Sint Jans in the Pommersfelden Book of Hours, Ms. 343’ , in: Oud Holland 123 (2010), pp. 220-234.
  • The Masters of the Dark Eyes. Manuscript Painting in Holland around 1500. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2009.
  • ‘The Alexander Willem Byvanck Genootschap: its History, Research and Results’, in: Quaerendo 39 (2009), pp. 209-224.
  • ‘Bloemen voor Anna. Een bijzondere verluchtingscyclus in gebeden tot de heilige Anna’, in: J. Biemans, K. van der Hoek, K.M. Rudy, E. van der Vlist [eds.]. Manuscripten en miniaturen. Studies aangeboden aan Anna S. Korteweg bij haar afscheid van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2007, pp. 59-75.
  • ‘“ENDE ZIET ALOMME INT PARADIJS”. Seth's Vision of Paradise as Part of an Unusual Decoration Program in a Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours from Utrecht ’, in: J.F. Hamburger & A. S. Korteweg [eds.]. Tributes in honor of James H. Marrow: Studies in Painting and Manuscript Illumination of the Late Middle Ages and NorthernRenaissance. London-Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2006, pp. 103-116.
  • Splendour, gravity & emotion. French medieval manuscripts in Dutch collections . [Exhibition catalogue]. Anne S. Korteweg. With assistance of  Klara H. Broekhuijsen, Gerrie A.M. van Dongen and Jos J. van Heel. Zwolle, Waanders Publishers/ The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/ The Hague, Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum 2004.
  • 'The Reconstruction of the Book of Hours of Catherine van Wassenaer', in: Quaerendo 33 (2003) (Special issue in honour of Prof. J.P. Gumbert), pp. 54-76.
  • Praal, ernst & emotie. De wereld van het Franse middeleeuwse handschrift. [Exhibition Catalogue]. A.S. Korteweg. Met medewerking van Klara H. Broekhuijsen, Gerrie A.M. van Dongen en Jos. J. van Heel. Den Haag (Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum/Museum van het Boek). Zwolle, Waanders Uitgevers, 2002.
  • 'The Legend of the grateful dead: a misinterpreted miniature in the Très Riches Heures de Jean de Berry'. in: Als ich Can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Prof. dr. Maurits Smeyers. Leuven 2002, pp. 213-230.

Recent lectures

  • Mijn leven met de Zwogen. Presentation of The Masters of the Dark Eyes.Late Medieval Manuscript Painting in Holland. Amsterdam , Allard Pierson Museum , 1 July 2009.
  • The Institutution of the Rosary. A newly discovered copy after a lost panel by Geertgen tot Sint Jans. Scholar's Day 'Vroege Hollanders'. Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans-Van Beuningen, 26 May 2008.
  • The decoration programmes in Books of Hours by the Masters of the Dark Eyes. Paris , Ecole du Louvre, 22 September 2007.
  • The Alexander Willem Byvanck Genootschap: its history and research results. Manuscripts and their Users: a conference held in honor of Anne S. Korteweg. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 8-10 March 2007.

Faculty functions

  • Member Programmateam Kunstgeschiedenis
  • Coördination Deeltijdopleiding Kunstgeschiedenis
  • Member Opleidingscommissie 

Memberships

  • Institute for Culture and History (UvA)
  • Vereniging Nederlandse Kunsthistorici
  • Alexander Willem Byvanck Genootschap