Wim Pijbes

Quick Facts

Full Name	Wim Pijbes
Occupation	Art Historian
Date Of Birth	Oct 9, 1961(1961-10-09)
Age	63
Birthplace	Veendam
Country	Netherlands
Birth City	Groningen
Horoscope	Capricorn

Wim Pijbes Biography

Wim Pijbes is one of the most popular and richest Art Historian who was born on October 9, 1961 in Veendam, Groningen, Netherlands. Willem Meint Jans “Wim” Pijbes (born 9 October 1961) is a Dutch art historian and emeritus General Director of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Wim Pijbes holds a position of the Humanitas Professorship in the History of Art at the University of Cambridge, is Chair of the Supervisory Board of Droog Design, Member of the Supervisory Board of Broadview Holding, Board member of the Rembrandt Society and Board member of Museum Voorlinden. On November 10, 2016 he was speaker at the Oxford Union on repatriating artifacts obtained during colonial rule.

Wim Pijbes Net Worth

Wim Pijbes is one of the richest Art Historian from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Wim Pijbes 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Pijbes’ initiatives at the Rijksmuseum include the museum’s complete refurbishment and reopening in April 2013 and the opening of the Philips Wing for photography and temporary exhibitions. In addition he developed and opened RIJKS®, the museum’s restaurant. With the reopening of the Rijksmuseum, Pijbes also launched Rijksstudio; the first digital application to offer images of the museum’s collection to everyone, free of charge. The Rijksmuseum was the first museum worldwide to ban copyrights and open the collection with a radical approach. The open-content museum dates to 2011, when the Rijksmuseum made the first of 208,000 images available for download at no cost after curators found more than 10,000 low-quality scans of one of its Vermeers online. Pijbes lectures and writes extensively on art, artists, the role of museums in society, copyright and on the digitalization of art.

On 30 May 2016 it was announced that Wim Pijbes became founding director of Museum Voorlinden, near the Dutch coast. After the opening of Museum Voorlinden he became member of the board. Taco Dibbits replaced him as General Director at the Rijksmuseum. From January 2017 onwards Wim Pijbes is the managing director of the philanthropic foundation Stichting Droom en Daad (Foundation Dream and Do).

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Dana Ranked on the list of most popular Art Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Wim Pijbes celebrates birthday on October 9 of every year.