Colleagues at the National Museum in Warsaw have informed us of the passing of their former colleague, Maria Kluk, on Monday, 31 March 2025.

Maria Kluk (1943-2025) was a Polish art historian specializing in seventeenth-century Dutch painting. She graduated from Warsaw University, where she studied under Professor Jan Białostocki. In 1998, she attended the inaugural CODART congress and remained active within our network during its early years. She served as the curator of the Dutch painting collection at the National Museum in Warsaw until her retirement in 2004.

Kluk’s opus magnum was co-written with Hanna Benesz (1947–2019). The two-volume catalogue, Early Netherlandish, Dutch, Flemish and Belgian Paintings 1494-1983 in the Collection of the National Museum in Warsaw and the Palace at Nieborów: Complete Illustrated Summary Catalogue, was published in 2016.