Wim van Krimpen (born in Groningen on 2 March 1941) is a Dutch art historian, art dealer and gallery owner of Galerie Wim van Krimpen, and art gallery director.Wim van Krimpen ; male / Dutch ; museum director, gallery owner
at ''rkd.nl''. Last updated 2017-10-18 He was director at the

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in Rotterdam, the

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in Leeuwarden and the

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in The Hague.Bob Witman, "De week van Galerie Van Krimpen," ''de Volkskrant,'' 16 september 2011.

Biography

Youth and early career

Van Krimpen was the son of a Christian minister."Van Krimpen verlaat Haags museum," ''de Volkskrant,'' 7 April 2008. After the war the family moved to Rotterdam, where he grew up.Bart Jungmann and Anneke Stoffelen
"Dwingende, ideeënrijke spullenbaas"
'' de Volkskrant'', 18 December 2007 After studying law for a few years, in 1964 Van Krimpen became of director of the Binnenhuis Ahoy fair in Rotterdam. In 1967 as director at the

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Van Krimpen managed his first more prominent event, the Hippy Happy Beurs for teens and twens. Not only did he manage to bring Jimi Hendrix on stage in Rotterdam. There where performances of the Bee Gees,

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, Soft Machine and Pink Floyd as well."Hippy Happy in Rotterdam". ''Het vrĳe volk : democratisch-socialistisch dagblad,'' Rotterdam, 1967/11/08, p. 13. In 1978 he started his first own gallery under the name ''Article''. On a trip to the States he learned, that everybody out there had started under their own name, so he changed it into the Galerie Wim van Krimpen.

Later career

The galerie van Krimpen lasted two years in Amsterdam, and moved to Rotterdam in 1979. In 1988 he was appointed interim-directeur of the

at that time yet to be built. Two year after its opening in 1992 he became its director until 1998. In 1998 he moved to the

in Leeuwarden and in 2000 he was back in The Hague, where he served as director of the

until 2009. In 2011 he was awarded the Benno Premsela Prize for his stimulating role in the field of visual arts, design or architecture.

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