SJA/KVVAK LECTURES RIJKSMUSEUM AMSTERDAM

In collaboration with the Royal Asian Art Society (Koninklijke Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst) the SJA will organize lectures in the auditorium of the Rijskmuseum, Amsterdam focussing on two gifts.

Marije Jansen, curator of Japanese prints in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, will give a lecture about the twentieth-century woodblock prints donated to the Rijksmuseum by Elise Wessels. More than 60 of the donated prints are on display in the Rijksmuseum’s Asian Pavilion from 12 October 2022 to 16 April 2023.

Menno Fitski, head of the department of Asian art, Rijksmuseum, and Ching-ling Wang, curator of Chinese art, Rijksmuseum will contribute to the second part of the programme with lectures about a gift of 100 modern Chinese painted fans. 

Save the date. Further details will follow soon.