Willemijn Fock Explained

Willemijn Fock
Birth Name:Cornelia Wilhelmina Fock
Birth Date:25 June 1942
Birth Place:Soerabaja, Dutch East Indies
Death Place:The Hague, Netherlands
Nationality:Dutch
Occupation:Art historian
Education:Leiden University

Cornelia Wilhelmina "Willemijn" Fock (25 June 1942 – 3 June 2021) was a Dutch art historian. She was professor of the history of applied arts at Leiden University.

Career

Fock obtained her doctorate at Leiden University in 1975 with a dissertation on the goldsmith Jacques Bylivelt at the court of Florence. In 1982, she became a professor of the history of applied arts at the same university.[1] She was mainly concerned with the history of interior decoration and furniture, tapestries and goldsmithing.[2] She wrote books about residential culture and Rapenburg in Leiden. Fock retired in 2007. In 2019, she was awarded an honorary membership of the Vereniging van Nederlandse Kunsthistorici (Association of Dutch Art Historians).[3]

Fock died on 3 June 2021.[4]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. http://www.leidenuniv.nl/letteren/nieuwsbrief/index.php3-c=729.htm Nieuwsbrief Universiteit Leiden, 2007
  2. http://www.narcis.nl/person/RecordID/PRS1234894/Language/nl Willemijn Fock in Narcis
  3. https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2019/10/bekroningen-voor-twee-leidse-kunsthistorici Bekroningen voor twee Leidse kunsthistorici
  4. Familiebericht in NRC Handelsblad, 5 juni 2021.