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Welcome to codart, the international network of curators ofDutch and Flemish art. The tremendous popularity and the factthat works of art from the Low Countries of the 15th through the 19th century are widely disseminated means that codart’s network is extensive and unique. Major holdings of Dutch andFlemish fine and decorative art are located in approximately 50 countries. Most of these collections – assembled by royals and individuals passionate about Dutch and Flemish art – are currently held in public museums. codart aims to makethis widespread cultural heritage more visible and accessible to an international public. At the same time, the organizationaims to increase public knowledge of Dutch and Flemish art,thereby lending a historical phenomenon a contemporary dimension.

At present, codart connects approximately 700 curators frommore than 350 museums in almost 50 countries. Members notonly work for prestigious institutions such as the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, the Prado in Madrid, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Louvre in Paris, and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, but also for less well-known museums in Australia, Cuba, Mexico, Poland and Ukraine. These curatorsserve a large audience: the museum-going public. As a result,codart ultimately reaches a far broader target group than just its members: art historians, museum visitors, private collectors and art dealers; in fact, anyone interested in Dutch and Flemish art.

codart fosters international cooperation in the areas of exhibitions, research and publications through its activities.Projects and exhibitions relating to artists such as Rembrandt,Rubens and Vermeer ultimately reach millions of people worldwide. It is therefore not surprising that codart, whichwas founded in 1998, has attained such a prominent positionwithin the international museum community.

Are you interested in joining codart as a member or benefactor? You might like to hear the stories of some of ourmembers and supporters, who are highlighted in this brochure.

I look forward to meeting you at one of our future events!

Maartje BeekmanDirector of codart

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a Aachen Adelaide Aix-en-Provence Ajaccio Alkmaar Allentown Almaty Alplarça Amiens

Amsterdam Angers Antwerp Apeldoorn Aranjuez Arras Aschaffenburg Assen Athens

Atlanta Auckland Austin Avignon b Bailleul Bakewell Baku Baltimore Bamberg Bangor

Barcelona Barnard Castle Barnsley Basel Bath Bayonne Bayreuth Beaune Bedfordshire

Beja Bejar Belfast Belgrade Bergamo Bergen Bergen op Zoom Bergues Berkeley Berlin

Besançon Bilbao Birmingham Bloomington Bojnice Bombay Bonn Bordeaux Boston

Bourg-en-Bresse Brasov Bratislava Braunschweig Bremen Brest Brighton Bristol Brno

Brooklyn Bruges Brunswick Brussels Bucharest Bückeburg Budapest Buenos Aires

Buffalo c Caen Cambridge Cape Town Caramulo Carcassonne Cardiff Châlons-en-

Champagne Chalon-sur-Saône Champaign Chantilly Chapel Hill Charleroi Charlottesville

Chateauroux Cheltenham Cherbourg Cheshire Chicago Christchurch Cincinnati

Cleveland Cleves Coburg Cologne Copenhagen Corning Cupar d Dallas Damme

Darmstadt Dayton Deinze Delden Delft Denver Dessau-Roßlau Detroit Deventer Dieppe

Dijon Dole Doorn Doornik Dordrecht Dortmund Douai Dresden Drottningholm Dublin

Dunkerque Durban Durham Düsseldorf Dyrham e Edinburgh Eindhoven Ekaterinburg

Emden Enkhuizen Enschede Epinal Esztergom f La Fère Florence Fort Worth Franeker

Frankfurt am Main Funchal g Gateshead Gdan sk Geneva Genoa Ghent Glasgow Glen Falls

Goes Gorinchem Gotha Gothenburg Göttingen Gouda Granada Graz Greenville Grenoble

Groningen h Haarlem Hagen Hamburg Hamilton Hamm Hanau Hannover Hanover

Hartford Havana Heidelberg Heino Helmond Helsinki Hillerød Hluboká nad Vltavou

Holland Hoorn Houston Hull i Indianapolis Innsbruck Ipswich Irkutsk Isselburg Ithaca

j Jacksonville Jerusalem Johannesburg k Kaluga Kansas City Karlsruhe Kassel Kaunas

Kazan Kiel Kiev Kimberley Kingston Koblenz Kortrijk Kraków Kursk Kyoto l Łancut

Landshut Laren Lawrence Leeds Leerdam Leeuwarden Leicester Leiden Leighton Leipzig

Lemgo Lessines Leuven Liberec Lier Lille Linz Lisbon Liverpool Łód´z London Loosdrecht

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Macon Madison Madrid Maidstone Mainz Manchester Le Mans Mantova Mänttä

Marseille Mechelen Meiningen Melbourne Merion Station Mettingen Metz Mexico City

Miami Beach Middelburg Milan Milwaukee Minneapolis Minsk Modave Modena

Mönchengladbach Montpellier Montreal Moscow Munich Munster n Nájera Namur

Nancy Nantes Naples Neuburg Neuquén New Haven New Orleans New York Nicosia

Nieborów Nijmegen Nîmes Nivå Nizhny Novgorod Norfolk Northampton Norwich

Nottingham Novi Sad Nuremberg o Oberlin Oberschleißheim Odessa Oldenburg

Olomouc Olsztyn Omaha Omsk Opava Oranienbaum Orléans Oslo Osnabrück Oss

Ottawa Otterlo Oxford p Pamplona Paris Pasadena Pavlovsk Penza Perm Petworth

Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Plymouth Poitiers Pommersfelden Ponce Pontevedra

Portland Potsdam Poughkeepsie Poznań Prague Prescot Pretoria Princeton Providence

Pskov Le Puy q Québec Quimper r Raleigh Recife Remiremont Rennes Richmond Riga

Rijswijk Rio De Janeiro Riom Rochester Rohrau Rome Rostock Rothesay Rotterdam Rouen

Rzeszów s Sacramento Saint-Étienne Saint-Flour Saint-Omer Salt Lake City Salzburg

Samara San Diego San Francisco San Marino São Paolo Sarasota Saratov Schiedam Schiphol

Schleswig Schoonhoven Schwerin Seattle Sevilla ’s-Heerenberg ’s-Hertogenbosch Sheffield

Sibiu Siegen Skokloster Smolensk Sofia South Brisbane Southampton St. Gallen St. Louis

St. Petersburg Stockholm Strasbourg Stuttgart Surrey Swansea Sydney Syracuse Szczecin

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Palm Beach Wiesbaden Willemstad Williamstown Windsor Winnipeg Winterthur

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codart offers various platforms for the exchange of inter -national expertise on Dutch and Flemish masters.

codart’s annual congress is a unique event for members, who gather from all over the world to share insights and findpartners for new exhibitions. The congress themes and work-shops focus on issues related to curatorial work within a broad,topical and international framework.

The codartfocus meetings are comprehensive sessions inwhich curators show their collections, open their stores, and discuss their exhibitions with their colleagues from all corners of the compass.

The codart study trips offer members a chance to visit various museum collections in a specific region of the world.Often planned to coincide with special exhibitions, these tripsprovide participants with valuable insight into renowned collections as well as less well-known museums.

codart’s website (www.codart.nl) is the main port of call onthe internet for everything related to Dutch and Flemish art in museums. It functions as an information and meeting center, a research tool, and as a guide to information and sourcesfound elsewhere on the internet, such as museum websites, universities, and research institutions. Around 1000 unique visitors consult the website daily. They scan the latest news of the museum community, seek information about museum curators, visit exhibitions, look at paintings in collection catalogues, read the codart publications and the Curator in the Spotlight section. Specialists and students can find suggestions for further reading, links to online publications,bibliographies, or the addresses of individuals and institutionsthat can help them further with their research.

The codartfeatures provide information on the network’s activities, members and collections, new developments, currentprojects and lesser known collections. It is a digital publicationplatform made for and by our members and friends, meant foreveryone interested in Dutch and Flemish art around the globe.

More than 3000 subscribers from outside the curators’ networkare kept informed about current exhibitions and news reportsthrough codart’s free e-mail service. codart has also attracted a growing number of aficionados through Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

The prestigious American-Canadian organization Archimuse has twice awarded a prize to codart’s website as the “Best Museum Professionals Site” for its richness and the easy accessibility of its content.

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stimulates discussions, offering a platform for old and newvoices and for opposing views, addressing problems, needs and policies of smaller and bigger museums. The annual codart congress not only keeps me informed about present-day museum issues. It also provides me with information on the research programs and exhibition projects of colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic. While visiting public and less accessible private collections in the host city, this gathering offers a unique opportunity to discuss loans as well.

Alejandro Vergara Senior Curator of Flemish and Northern European Paintings,Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

“The work of a curator involves working with a network of col-leagues. codart is an invaluable tool for this. The professionaltrips and conferences that it organizes have allowed me to makefriends and connections crucial to my projects. In many of thebooks that I have authored I have asked for their collaboration.The Prado’s support for exhibitions in museums across Europeand the United States was also made possible by this wonderfulorganization. European art from the early modern period was apan-continental affair. The same multinational effort and pointof view is necessary today to properly understand it. Thanks tocodart –its web page, its staff, its events—tapping into a net-work of colleagues is not just an ideal but a very feasible reality.”

Sabine Pénot Curator of Netherlandish and Dutch Paintings, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

“Being a member of codart is a privilege: it is wonderful to be part of a worldwide network of colleagues with a sharedpassion for a specific field of art. codartmakes it possible toshare questions, thoughts, and ideas in an atmosphere that I have always found to be generous, constructive, and fruitful.codart events enable us to explore and learn more about collections with the aid of leading specialists; the codartwebsite keeps us informed on the latest developments and projects – both are marvelous ways of expanding our know ledge.In an age of rapid changes in the museum world, curators need astrong lobby. It is crucial for us to act together in disseminatingour passion for Dutch and Flemish art from the Low Countries.In this way we can help to ensure that the field will endure andremain strong for generations to come.

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Quentin Buvelot Senior Curator, Mauritshuis, The Hague

“codart is so much more than just a network organization.Naturally, events such as the yearly congresses offer a chance to meet colleagues, but they also provide ample opportunity tostudy collections and learn more about your particular field ofexpertise. I am also a great fan of codartfocusmeetings, as theygenerate a wealth of new interpretations and ideas. Plus, there is the added enjoyment of finally putting faces to names whichyou only knew from publications. Finally, I check the news section of the codartwebsite several times a week to keeptrack of the latest developments in the international art world.”

Betsy Wieseman Curator and Head of Northern European Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington

“From codart’s initial meeting, it was clear that the allure ofDutch and Flemish art was powerful enough to draw curatorsfrom around the world to share their knowledge of and passionfor the art of the Low Countries. What was not immediately apparent, however, was how critical codartwould become in building the international friendships that are so essential toour work. I especially appreciate the non-hierarchical nature ofour gatherings: everyone has something to offer and everyonehas something to learn, whether a specialist curator at a large institution, curator of a diverse collection that includes a hand-ful of Dutch or Flemish objects, or a junior colleague just start-ing out in the museum profession. “codart” is like a secretpassword—say it, and members will help in any way they can.”

Nico van Hout Head of Collection Research and Curator of 17th-century Paintings, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

“codartmeans a lot to me. The network enabled me to get toknow curators of Dutch and Flemish art worldwide in person.codartwas certainly instrumental in making friends with several colleagues of my generation. The organization actively

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“The Met’s Northern Renaissance Paintings collection is thelargest of its kind in the United States. There are about 140 Early Netherlandish paintings, 70 Early German paintings, and a smaller group of French paintings. The main collection resides in the European Paintings Department, mostly the result of generous donors. The Cloisters/Medieval Departmenthouses certain works – among them the famous Merode Trip-tych – that were purchased through their own endowmentfunds. The Linsky and Lehman collections are housed in named galleries as a result of the stipulations of their bequests. It isthrough the catalogues of these collections as a whole that onegets an idea of the totality of the holdings.

With such a comprehensive collection of northern European15th – 16th century paintings, it can be a challenge to expand the collection. Yet, there ARE gaps. In recent years, we have beenable to fill a major lacuna – sixteenth century still life painting –with a great Beuckelaer, the monogrammed and dated 1568 Fish Market. At other times, opportunities come along that can’tbe ignored. Thus we acquired a rare Portrait of an Old Man, now attributed to Hugo van der Goes, and an exceptionally poignantChrist Carrying the Cross by Jan Gossart.

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Our collections often serve as the starting point for exhibitionssmall and large. Focus shows on Albrecht Dürer’s Salvator Mundi,Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Saint Maurice, or the original frames of Jan van Eyck’s Crucifixion and Last Judgment have been trulypleasurable experiences. The monographic exhibitions I havecarried out with collaborators, such as those on Petrus Christus,Gerard David, Jan Gossart, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, to name a few have been the result of close technical examinations that led us to new conclusions about the artistic contributions ofthese artists in their own time. In every case, I have benefittedfrom my early interdisciplinary route that afforded close collaboration with paintings conservators.

In a long career, I have received a number of awards for booksand exhibitions. They recognize the gifts that we codartmembers as art historians and curators can pass on to the next generation of professionals through our teaching and mentoring. Collaboration with other departments at the Met as well as with other museums internationally has always been a goal of mine. We achieve far more when we join together inprojects than when we stand alone, as our codartmeetingsand resulting collaborations have so readily demonstrated.”

Joachim Beuckelaer (1533–1575)

Fish Market, 1568

The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

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When Gary Schwartz first told me about his ideas for codartover twenty-five years ago, I was totally convinced. Creating acentral organization to unite curators of Dutch and Flemish artwas an excellent way to foster a cooperative and supportive environment. A curator’s scholarly work can be a lonely pursuit,and codartwould connect people who shared a common interest in the fascinating field of Dutch and Flemish art.

I have watched codart grow from an idea, to a start-up organization, to what it has become today – a center of supportfor Dutch and Flemish curators, complete with meetings, educational travel opportunities, and the resulting developmentof ideas, exhibitions and loans. Scholarly exchange with otherknowledgeable people is now a regular occurrence, in large partbecause of codart.

This was not so when Maida and I began collecting in the 1960s.The increased collegiality has benefitted the international net-work of curators and their museum-going public. Visitors nowarrive to better and better exhibitions and permanent collectionswith more knowledge of Dutch and Flemish art in hand, andalso experience the important, humanizing effect art brings topeople’s lives – thanks in no small part to codart.

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George Abrams grew up in greater

Boston and continues to practice law

in his home city. Together with his late

wife, Maida Stocker Abrams (1938-2002),

he built up the finest collection of

seventeenth-century Dutch drawings

ever put together in North America. A

large part has been given to the Harvard

Art Museums. He has supported

codart from the beginning, first as

a Patron, and since 2018 as a Patron for

Life. In 2017, he became a Knight in the

Order of Oranje-Nassau for his lifelong

efforts in the promotion of Dutch art.

Photo: © President and Fellows of

Harvard College/Credit: Steve Gilbert

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Netherlands Ministry of Education,

Culture and Science (ocw) and the

Netherlands Institute for Art History

(rkd) in The Hague. codart has also

succeeded in securing one-off project

grants from other external funding

bodies.

codart cooperates closely with, and

supports the endeavors of, the rkd

in The Hague, which is of pivotal

importance in the global network of

scholars of Dutch and Flemish art. The

rkd receives a subsidy for codart

from the Dutch government (the above-

mentioned ocw). With regard to the

status of codart, both institutions

are happy with the model in which

codart – a small, capable and decisive

organization – functions independently

but in close cooperation with the rkd.

CoverWillem van Haecht (1593-1637),

Apelles paints Campaspe, ca.1630,

Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen

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Maartje Beekman, Director of codart

maartje.beekman@codart.nl

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Judith van Kranendonk (Chair),

Former Director-General of Culture

and Media, Ministry of Education,

Culture and Science

Erik van Ginkel (Secretary-Treasurer),

Managing Director of the

Rijks museum, Amsterdam

Elsje Janssen, Scientific Director of the

Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Thomas Leysen, Chairman of kbc Bank

and Collector, Antwerp

Marjan Scharloo, Director of the

Teylers Museum, Haarlem

codart was founded in 1998 on the

initiative of Gary Schwartz and the

Instituut Collectie Nederland, now part

of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel

Erfgoed.

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Visiting address

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2595 be The Hague

The Netherlands

+31 (0)70 333 97 44

info@codart.nl

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A Auckland Austin Avignon Bakewell Baku Baltimore Bamberg Bangor

B Barnard Castle Barnsley Basel Bath Bayonne Bayreuth Beaune Bedfordshire

B Bejar Belfast Belgrade Bergamo Bergen Bergen op Zoom Bergues Berkeley Berlin

B Bilbao Birmingham Bloomington Bojnice Bombay Bonn Bordeaux Boston

B Bras Braunschweig Bremen Brest Brighton Bristol Brno

B Bruges Brunswick Brussels Bucharest Bückeburg Budapest Buenos Aires

B Cambridge Cape Town Caramulo Carcassonne Cardiff Châlons-en-

C Chalon-sur-Saône Champaign Chantilly Chapel Hill Charleroi Charlottesville

C Cheltenham Cherbourg Cheshire Chicago Christchurch Cincinnati

C Cleves Coburg Cologne Copenhagen Corning Cupar Damme

D Dayton Deinze Delden Delft Denver Dessau-Roßlau Detroit Deventer Dieppe

D Dole Doorn Doornik Dordrecht Dortmund Douai Dresden Drottningholm Dublin

D Durban Durham Düsseldorf Dyrham Eindhoven Ekaterinburg

E Enkhuizen Enschede Epinal Esztergom Florence Fort Worth Franeker

F Funchal Gdan sk Geneva Genoa Ghent Glasgow Glen Falls

G Gorinchem Gotha Gothenburg Göttingen Gouda Granada Graz Greenville Grenoble

G Hagen Hamburg Hamilton Hamm Hanau Hannover Hanover

H Havana Heidelberg Heino Helmond Helsinki Hillerød Hluboká nad Vltavou

H Hoorn Houston Hull Innsbruck Ipswich Irkutsk Isselburg Ithaca

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M Meiningen Melbourne Merion Station Mettingen Metz Mexico City

M Beach Middelburg Milan Milwaukee Minneapolis Minsk Modave Modena

M Montpellier Montreal Moscow Munich Munster Namur

N Nantes Naples Neuburg Neuquén New Haven New Orleans New York Nicosia

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P Phoenix Pittsburgh Plymouth Poitiers Pommersfelden Ponce Pontevedra

P Potsdam Poughkeepsie Poznań Prescot Pretoria Princeton Providence

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B Bejar Belfast Belgrade Bergamo Bergen Bergen op Zoom Bergues Berkeley Berlin

B Bilbao Birmingham Bloomington Bojnice Bombay Bonn Bordeaux Boston

B Bras Braunschweig Bremen Brest Brighton Bristol Brno

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Dutch and Flemish art is valued and collected all over the world. The production and dissemination of works of art, remains one of the greatest cultural successes in the history of the Low Countries. codart continues tobuild on this achievement, bringing together hundreds of people responsible for Flemish and Dutch art collectionsin museums worldwide within a single international organization, thereby giving a contemporary dimension to a historical phenomenon.

Royalty, individuals and businesses have served as patrons of Dutch and Flemish art throughout the world. Our cultural heritage has always flourished well beyond the borders of the Low Countries thanks to private benefactors. You can participate in this rich tradition by joining the Friends of codart Foundation.

f r i e n d s o f c o d a r t f o u n d a t i o n

We offer our friends contact with a unique global network of museum curators. Our network meetings offer the opportunity to become acquainted with curatorsfrom New York, Amsterdam and St. Petersburg; exchangethoughts with our members from Antwerp, Havana andParis; and receive advice from our specialists from Bruges,Warsaw and Berlin. Naturally, our friends can count on the personal attention of codart’s director, board andstaff.

The Friends of codart Foundation was established in 2007 to help forge enduring relationships betweenmembers of codart and private individuals and businesses with a passion for Old Masters. The Friends of codart has supported this international network of museum curators since 2007. Thanks to its friends, codart can maintain its prize-winning website www.codart.nl. They also underwrite important international gatherings as well as grants that allow curators from financially challenged museums to be involved in the network.

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The Friends of codart Foundation

is a legal entity with its own board:

Titia Vellenga, Owner of Artara and

Former pr & Marketing Manager

at tefaf (chair)

Till-Holger Borchert, Director of

Musea Brugge, Bruges

Bob Haboldt, Director of Haboldt & Co.

and Pictura, New York, Paris,

Amsterdam

Christi Klinkert, Curator, Stedelijk

Museum Alkmaar

Rob Vellekoop, Collector, The Hague

d i r e c t o r

Maartje Beekman, Director of codart

maartje.beekman@codart.nl

f r i e n d s o f

c o d a r t f o u n d a t i o n

p.o. Box 90418

2509 lk The Hague

The Netherlands

Visiting address

Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5

2595 be The Hague

The Netherlands

+31 (0)70 333 97 44

friends@codart.nl

www.codart.nl/friends

Bank: abn amro Bank

Apollolaan 171

1077 as Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Swift code: abn-anl-2a

iban code: nl47abna0476763347

b e c o m e a f r i e n d

Visit www.codart.nl/friends

b e n e f i t s

d o n o r (for individuals)> Gifts of 75 Euros per year (or more)> You receive the codartfeatures, News and Notifications> An annual invitation to a museum visit, guided by a

codart member

p a t r o n (for individuals)> Gifts of 1.000 Euros per year (or more)> You receive the codartfeatures, News and Notifications> Possibility to take part in the international codartcongresses and study trips

> An annual invitation to an in-depth museum visit, guided by a codart member

> An annual invitation to a codartfocus meeting: an in-depth museum visit, organized exclusively for codart members, specialists and Patrons, guided by a codart member

> An annual invitation to a Patrons Salon (lecture, exchange of expertise in the field of the Old Masters, taking place during tefaf, Maastricht)

> Your name mentioned as Patron in codartcommunications and on the codart homepage (optional)

p a t r o n f o r l i f e (for individuals)> Once-only gift of 15.000 Euros (or more)> You are a life-long Patron of codart and enjoy all the benefits that codart offers to Patrons

b u s i n e s s s p o n s o r (for companies)> Gifts of 2.500 Euros per year (or more)> Business Sponsors enjoy all the benefits that codartoffers to Patrons and have the opportunity to register for the annual codart congress with a maximum of two delegates

t a x b e n e f i t s

> The Dutch Tax Administration has designated codartas an ‘institution for general benefit’ (Algemeen Nut Beogende Instelling [anbi]). Accordingly, gifts may be deducted from income and corporate tax.

> European Union citizens can support codart throughTransnational Giving Europe (tge). Gifts made throughtge may be deducted from income and corporate tax inyour own country.

> u.s .-based donors can support our activities in a tax-efficient way by contributing to the American Friends of codart Fund at the King Baudouin Foundation United States (kbfus).

> Please check www.codart.nl/friends or contact the codart bureau for more information about tax benefits and methods of payment.

p a t r o n s f o r l i f e

George Abrams |Bijl-Van Urk b.v. |Broere

Charitable Foundation |Michel Ceuterick |Coll & Cortés Ltd. |Bob Haboldt |Fergus Hall |Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder |The Leiden

Collection |Thomas Leysen |Tijo and

Christine van Marle |Rose-Marie and Eijk de

Mol van Otterloo |Marnix Neerman |Elsbeth van Tets |Rob Vellekoop

p a t r o n s

Alexander en Otto Stichting Wassenaar |Stein Berre | Luc Bertrand |Brian Capstick |Joost and Françoise Commandeur-Duynstee |Mr. and Mrs. J.A. de Gier | Johnny Van Haeften |Mr and Mrs Hanstein |Benjamin Jarry |David Koetser |The Kremer Collection |David Lainé |Amb. J. William Middendorf ii |Mr and Mrs Moerman |Baudouin du Parc |Zuzana Trepková Paternostro | Joseph and Jana

Roussel |Onno and Renée Ruding-Hekking |Jacques Schraven |Axel Vervoordt nv |Floris

van Wanroij |Matthew and Susan Weatherbie |The Weiss Gallery |Bernard Wientjes and

Titia Vellenga

b u s i n e s s s p o n s o r s

brafa Art Fair |Nicholas Hall |Galerie Lowet

de Wotrenge, Antwerp | Salomon Lilian |Sotheby’s |tefaf (The European Fine Arts

Fair)

m u s e u m s t h a t s u p p o r t c o d a r t

a s i n s t i t u t i o n a l m e m b e r

Centraal Museum, Utrecht |Denver Art

Museum |Drents Museum, Assen |Fondation

Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris |Glasgow Museums, Glasgow |Harvard Art

Museums, Cambridge |King Baudouin

Foundation, Brussels |Kunsthistorisches

Museum, Vienna |Mauritshuis, The Hague |Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |Musea Brugge |Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden |Museum

Het Rembrandt huis, Amsterdam |National-

museum, Stockholm |Patrimonio Nacional,

Madrid |Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |Royal

Łazienki Museum, Warsaw |Royal Museums

of Fine Arts of Belgium |Het Scheepvaart -

museum, Amsterdam | Stedelijk Museum

Alkmaar | Szépmuvészeti Múzeum, Budapest |Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |Vlaamse

Kunstcollectie (Museums of Fine Arts:

Antwerp, Bruges, Ghent, Leuven, Ostend)

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