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Historic Paper Cutting Art

17 October 2024

Historic Paper Cutting Art

Symposium: 17 October 2024

The Dutch Association for Paper Cutting is organizing a symposium on historic paper cutting art in public and private collections and the state of (art) historical research thereof in the Netherlands. The art of paper cutting has been practiced in the Netherlands for at least four centuries. Only a fraction of what was created during that period has stood the test of time. It is located in museum depots or hangs on the walls of individuals.

Program

The program (mostly in Dutch) includes the following speakers:

  • Jan Peter Verhave, cutting art expert, collector and author of many articles about Dutch paper cutters, provides an overview of exhibitions and collection formation of cutting work since 1945.
  • Maja Houtman, chairman of the Dutch Association for Paper Cutting, reflects on the creation and content of the website Knipperslexicon.nl.
  • Tonnie Dieleman, researcher of the work of Jan Huijssoon alias Jan de Prentenknipper van Zeeland, talks about his life and meaning.
  • Prof. Martha Peacock of Brigham Young University, Provo (UT, USA) discusses her study of Joanna Koerten, the Netherlands’ most famous cutter of the seventeenth century (in English).

Joanna Koerten (1650-1715), Roman freedom, 1697, Westfries Museum, Hoorn

Register

The symposium takes place on 17 October 2024 from 1 PM until 5 PM CEST at the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History. The symposium is free of charge, but registration is required. Please register via the website of the Dutch Association for Paper Cutting.