Ger Luijten
Luijten was born in 1956. He started a study to become a drawing teacher in Breda in 1977. When he was 23 years old he decided to study art history in Utrecht. In the 1980s he worked as a scientific employee at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. From 1990 to 2010 he worked at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where he was the head of the art on paper department from 2001. During this period he acquired post-World War II Dutch art. Luijten had the opinion that twentieth-century printmaking and drawing should be acquired in the broadest scope. So next to Mondrian and Armando also less known figurative artists and illustrators like as Peter van Straaten and Dick Bruna. He became in 2010 director of Fondation Custodia in Paris that holds the art collection of the Dutch collector Frits Lugt (1884-1970). Luijten changed Fondation Custodia from a closed study collection into a accesible home for art on paper. Ger was also editor of, among others Simiolus and Print Quarterly.