Frits Scholten (born 1959 in

Hengelo Hengelo (; Tweants: ) is a city in the eastern part of the Netherlands, in the province of Overijssel. The city lies along the motorways A1/E30 and A35 and it has a station for the international Amsterdam – Hannover – Berlin service. Popu ...

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) is a Dutch

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

specialising in art of the Netherlands from the late

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until 1800, and sculpture from the 15th to 19th centuries. Currently he is Head of Department of Sculpture and the

Rijksmuseum The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the St ...

in Amsterdam.Dr. Frits Scholten
. CODART. Retrieved 9 October 2018 Previously he was senior curator of sculpture at the

from 1993, prior to which he worked at the

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is an art museum in The Hague in the Netherlands, founded in 1866 as the Museum voor Moderne Kunst. Later, until 1998, it was known as Haags Gemeentemuseum, and until the end of September 2019 as Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. I ...

.Frits Scholten, professor of History of Western Sculpture
.

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. Retrieved 9 October 2018 Scholten has published extensively on applied arts and European sculpture. He is editor of the Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek and the Wallraf-Richartz Museum Jahrbuch.

Publications

* "Adriaen de Vries: The Bacchant and Other Late Works". Rijksmuseum, 2017. * "Small Wonders: Late Gothic Boxwood Microcarvings from the Low Countries". Rijksmuseum, 2017. * "Judith Pfaeltzer: The Sculpture as Landscape". Waanders Uitgevers, 2008. * "Menacing Love: A Statue by Falconet". Waanders Uitgevers, 2006. * "Willem Van Tetrode Sculptor". Rijksmuseum, 2003. * "Adriaen de Vries, imperial sculptor". Exhibition Catalogue, 1998–99, Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum), Stockholm (

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) and Los Angeles (

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)

References

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