Axel Rüger
Axel Rüger (born 1968 in Dortmund) is a German art historian, curator and museum director. Since 2019 he has led the Royal Academy of Arts in London and in spring 2025 will assume the directorship of the Frick Collection in New York City. Previously, he served as director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam between 2006 and 2019, and worked as a curator of Dutch art at the National Gallery in London. Early life and education Rüger studied history of art at the Free University of Berlin from 1989 to 1993, and then from 1993 to 1994 at the University of Cambridge. At Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, he commenced writing a dissertation on the Dutch painter and archtiect Bartholomeus van Bassen. While he continued his research on Bassen at the Radboud-Universität in Nijmegen in 1998 and 1999, he has not completed the doctoral degree. He completed internships at various museum, among them the museum in Detroit. Career Rüger, a specialist in Johannes Vermeer and ...
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