GER LUIJTEN, who was born in Tilburg, Netherlands, in 1956 and died suddenly in Amsterdam last December, was one of the art world’s most impressive people. To scholarship, curiosity and a clear eye, he added the passion that is essential to a great museum curator. He was also a charming and skilful diplomat. His career began in 1987 in the print room of the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, before he moved to the Rijksmuseum, where he became head of the autonomous Rijksprentenkabinet in 2001.
He was the editor of the Hollstein series—the indispensable of Dutch and Flemish engravings—and a member of the board of
