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Associate Member of CODART since 2018
Member of CODART from 2012 to 2018
In 2019 Claire van den Donk (former curator of Dutch and Flemish portraits at the RKD) and Rudi Ekkart (former director of the RKD) founded DOEK ART, a freelance agency for art-historical research, projects & publications. Van den Donk is also an independent translator of art historical texts through her company ARTDOK.
Exhibitions curated since 1999
Selected publications
2021
‘Rembrandt’s Portrait Commissions outside Amsterdam’
Rudi Ekkart and Claire van den Donk
Essay in Rembrandt in Amsterdam, pp. 137-151
Catalogue of an exhibition in 2021 in Ottawa (National Gallery of Canada) and Frankfurt am Main (Städel Museum)
Ottawa (National Gallery of Canada) and New Haven (Yale University Press) 2021
‘Jeugdig gerammel: kinderen en hun rammelaars op portretten’
Claire van den Donk and Rudi Ekkart
Essay in Rammelaars en rinkelbellen. De collectie van Heinz Keijser, pp. 60-72
Catalogue of an exhibition in 2021/ 2022 in Amsterdam (Joods Museum)
Edited by Mirjam Knotter
Zutphen (Walburg Pers) 2021
2020
‘Abraham Carré in de schijnwerpers’
Rudi Ekkart and Claire van den Donk
Essay in Connoisseurship. Essays in Honour of Fred G. Meijer, pp. 120-127
Liber Amicorum Fred G. Meijer
Leiden (Primavera Pers) 2020
2019
‘Een reizende schilder als toonaangevend portrettist van hof en burgerij in de laatste jaren van de Republiek. Tischbein in Nederland’
Essay in J. Beltman and P. Knolle (ed.), Johann Friedrich Tischbein en de ontdekking van het gevoel, pp. 65-79
Catalogue of an exhibition in 2019 in Enschede (Rijksmuseum Twenthe)
Zwolle (Waanders Uitgevers) 2019
2018
Lief en leed. Realisme en fantasie in Nederlandse familiegroepen uit de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw
Rudi Ekkart and Claire van den Donk
Catalogue of an exhibition in 2018/ 2019 in Enschede (Rijksmuseum Twenthe)
Zwolle (Waanders Uitgevers) 2018
2016
‘Dutch self-portraits. The Hague’
Exhibition in The Burlington Magazine 158 (2016), pp. 151-153
2015
Van Bol tot Veth. De portretverzameling van de families Van de Poll, Wolters en Quina
Claire van den Donk and Rudi Ekkart
Catalogue of an exhibition in 2015 in Amsterdam (Museum Van Loon)