are recruiting a Curatorial Fellow
within the framework of the Getty Paper Project
Application deadline: 23 April 2020
We are looking to recruit a RMFAB-Getty Curatorial Fellow with a special interest in Belgian art on paper of the period 1868 – 1914 (Fin-de-Siècle Museum).
The position and project are integrated in the collection “Works on Paper Modern Art (19th to 21st – century)” which holds about 9.000 works in total and comprises mainly drawings, pastels and watercolors, as well as photographs and prints from artist born 1748 and later. Prints and photographs held in the collection are mainly from the period after 1945. The strengths of the collection are the late 19th century in Belgian art, Belgian abstract art of the 1920s as well as the young generation after 1945 with ‘La Jeune Peinture Belge’ and CoBrA. Highlights are large collections of works by Fernand Khnopff, James Ensor, Léon Spilliaert, Jean Delville, Rik Wouters, Jozef Peeters, Felix De Boeck, René Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Pierre Alechinsky, Gaston Bertrand, Marcel Broodthaers and main works by foreign artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Odilon Redon or Marc Chagall. They are currently shown to the public through temporary exhibitions and rotating displays in the Magritte and Fin-de-Siècle Museum.
The Fellowship funded by the Getty Foundation will enable the Fellow to participate in a range of curatorial activities related to the collection of ‘works on paper modern art’ in the Department Collection and Research and to assist the curator of the collection in general. Accordingly, the grant will support full curatorial training in areas such as cataloguing in order to complete the digital catalogue, collections management, research, rotating temporary displays and acquisitions. In particular, the fellow will follow the preparation of the rotations in the Fin-de-Siècle Museum. The fellowship will primarily involve to inventory in detail larger compounds of works as well as reviewing and building catalogue entries and object files related to the collection of art on paper of the period 1870 - 1910.
Key areas of responsibility
• Cataloguing (detailed description of the works, including attribution, and as far as possible provenance, exhibition history and bibliography)
• Adding new information to the museum’s collection database, Fabritius, after training by the Digital Museum team, and to hard copy object files
• Maintenance, updating and improving the on-line records of the collection as well as assisting in the Digitization of the holdings
• Curatorial assistance for the rotations and writing of label texts
• Contribution to a publication
More information on institutional profile and context, required skills, work conditions and application instructions can be found on the museum's website.
Application deadline: 23 April 2020
Additional information
Project and Content of the Position
We are looking to recruit a RMFAB-Getty Curatorial Fellow with a special interest in Belgian art on paper of the period 1868 – 1914 (Fin-de-Siècle Museum).
The position and project are integrated in the collection “Works on Paper Modern Art (19th to 21st – century)” which holds about 9.000 works in total and comprises mainly drawings, pastels and watercolors, as well as photographs and prints from artist born 1748 and later. Prints and photographs held in the collection are mainly from the period after 1945. The strengths of the collection are the late 19th century in Belgian art, Belgian abstract art of the 1920s as well as the young generation after 1945 with ‘La Jeune Peinture Belge’ and CoBrA. Highlights are large collections of works by Fernand Khnopff, James Ensor, Léon Spilliaert, Jean Delville, Rik Wouters, Jozef Peeters, Felix De Boeck, René Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Pierre Alechinsky, Gaston Bertrand, Marcel Broodthaers and main works by foreign artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Odilon Redon or Marc Chagall. They are currently shown to the public through temporary exhibitions and rotating displays in the Magritte and Fin-de-Siècle Museum.
The Fellowship funded by the Getty Foundation will enable the Fellow to participate in a range of curatorial activities related to the collection of ‘works on paper modern art’ in the Department Collection and Research and to assist the curator of the collection in general. Accordingly, the grant will support full curatorial training in areas such as cataloguing in order to complete the digital catalogue, collections management, research, rotating temporary displays and acquisitions. In particular, the fellow will follow the preparation of the rotations in the Fin-de-Siècle Museum. The fellowship will primarily involve to inventory in detail larger compounds of works as well as reviewing and building catalogue entries and object files related to the collection of art on paper of the period 1870 - 1910.
Key areas of responsibility
• Cataloguing (detailed description of the works, including attribution, and as far as possible provenance, exhibition history and bibliography)
• Adding new information to the museum’s collection database, Fabritius, after training by the Digital Museum team, and to hard copy object files
• Maintenance, updating and improving the on-line records of the collection as well as assisting in the Digitization of the holdings
• Curatorial assistance for the rotations and writing of label texts
• Contribution to a publication
More information on institutional profile and context, required skills, work conditions and application instructions can be found on the museum's website.
Application deadline: 23 April 2020
Additional information
... about the project and the position:
Mrs. Inga Rossi-Schrimpf - project administrator (inga.rossi@fine-arts-museum.be)
... about working conditions:
Mrs. Inga Rossi-Schrimpf - project administrator (inga.rossi@fine-arts-museum.be)
... about working conditions:
Mr Jan Stalpaert (phone 02/508.32.86; jan.stalpaert@fine-arts-museum.be)
