Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann was a Dutch and American art historian and writer.Biography
Born in Naarden, he spent most of his childhood in Siberia where his father worked as an engineer. Returning, via Morocco, to the Netherlands in the late 1930s, he finished his gymnasium high school in Dordrecht and initially studied law, but soon art history in Amsterdam and Utrecht. In the early 50s he was curator of drawings and later paintings at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. He completed his PhD with a monograph on Willem Buytewech in December 1958 with Jan Gerrit van Gelder at Utrecht University. He emigrated to the United States in 1959 at the age of 36.
He was a Professor of art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU and Yale University.
His notable students included Ronni Baer, Alan Chong, Stephanie Dickey, Wayne Franits, Thomas Krens, Otto Naumann, Nanette Salomon, Joaneath Spicer and Peter C. Sutton.
He has received the Guggenheim Fellowship. He has also been a distinguished member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton.
