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1946 Born
in
1964 Diploma gymnasium (B)
1970 Master
degree (cum laude) in economics at the
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
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.