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CURRICULUM VITAE  Hans Abbing 

 Full surname: Roscam Abbing. First name: Johannes

 

 

1946                         Born in Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

1964                         Diploma gymnasium (B)

 

1970                         Master degree (cum laude) in economics at the university of Groningen.

 

1971-1976                Works as researcher for the Institute for Economic Research at the Economics Faculty of the University in Groningen.

 

1976-1978                Works for the Culture Department of the Dutch Ministry of CRM.

 

1978                         Writes Economie en cultuur, De subsidieproblematiek in de economische theorie, alsmede aanzetten tot een economie van de kunsten, Staatsuitgeverij, Den Haag, 1978, 225 pagina's.

 

1983                         Diploma of the visual art department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.

 

1983-present             Works as visual artist (drawings, photographs and videos). Represented by gallery and visual art center Witeveen in Amsterdam..

 

1989                         Publishes: Een Economie van de Kunsten, Beschouwingen over kunst en kunstbeleid, Groningen: Historische Uitgeverij Groningen, 1989, 273 pages (reprint 1993)

 

1990-2005                Works as part-time lecturer (with 3/10 assignment) at the Art Economics Department of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

 

1996                         `Visiting professor’ at the Institut für Finanzwissenshaft of the Karl Franszen Universitat in Graz, Austra.

 

2002                         Publishes: Why are Artists Poor? The Exceptional Economy of the Arts Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2002, 367 pages (Fourth print 2008; translations in Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Farsi.)

 

2002                         Receives a PhD-degree at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

 

2005–2008               Extraordinary Professor in Art-Sociology at the University of Amsterdam: the Boekman-chair. (At the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities )

 

From 2008                Professor Emeritus in Art-Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. (at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences ). Teaches and supervises theses in the Cultural Sociology Master of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences of the University of Amsterdam and in the Cultural Economics and Cultural Entrepreneurship master at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

 

2009                         Publishes Van Hoge naar Nieuwe Kunst, Historische Uitgeverij, Groningen, 2009, 142 pages.

 

From 2010              Writes the book The Art Period, a study of art, artists and the arts’ economy, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming, 2016.