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Hulst, Roger d’

    Full Name: Hulst, Roger-Adolf, d'

    Other Names:

    • Roger d'Hulst

    Gender: male

    Date Born: 20 December 1917

    Date Died: 15 February 1996

    Place Born: Ghent, East Flanders, Flanders, Belgium

    Place Died: Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

    Home Country/ies: Belgium


    Overview

    Rubens and Jordaens scholar: professsor of art history at the University of Ghent, 1957-1985. d’Hulst worked as a curator at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels begiining in 1949.  He received a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Ghent in 1955, writing his dissertation on Jacob Jordaens’s drawings, De tekeningen van Jakob Jordaens: bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van de XVIIe-eeuwse kunst in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden. He joined the University beginning in 1957, teaching art history. In 1959 he co-founded the Belgian Institute for the study of 16th- and 17th-century Flemish art, serving as its director for most of the rest of his life. D’Hulst and Burchard co-wrote a book on Rubens’s drawings in 1963. A book on Rubens’s oil sketches appeared in 1968. A book Flemish tapestries written in 1971. d’Hulst succeeded in getting Ludwig Burchard to will his extensive library to the Institute, which then became the Centrum Rubenianum. There he began assigning scholars to write volumes for an eventually twenty-volume catalogue raisonné. The Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard. In 1974 d’Hulst published a four-volume work on Jordaens’s drawings followed by a monograph on the artist in 1982

    D’Hulst’s documentation on other artists and schools was for the greater part integrated in the artwork documentation of the Rubenianum. His library was added to the Rubenianum’s library..He was largely responsible for the reconstruction of Jordaens work. (New York Times).


    Selected Bibliography

    [complete list:] Vander Auwera, Joost. “Bibliografie R.-A. d’Hulst” Rubens and his World. Antwerp: Het Gulden Cabinet, 1985, pp xix-xxviii; [dissertation:] De tekeningen van Jakob Jordaens: bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van de XVIIe-eeuwse kunst in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden. Ghent University, published, Brussels: Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten, Paleis der Academiën, 1956; Drawings and Watercolors by Flemish and Dutch Masters. Washington, Cambridge, Baltimore, Cleveland, San Francisco, New York, 1954; and Burchard, Ludwig. Tekeningen van P. P. Rubens. Antwerp: Uitgeverij ontwikkeling, 1956; and Burchard, Ludwig. Rubens Drawings. Brussels: Arcade Press, 1963; and Vey, Horst. Antoon Van Dyck, tekeningen en olieverfschetsen. Deurne-Antwerp: Rubenshuis/C. Govaerts, 1960; and Liebaers, Herman and Duverger, Jozef. Vlaamse wandtapijten van de XIVe tot de XVIIIe eeuw. Brussels: Arcade, 1960, English: Flemish Tapestries, from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century. New York: Universe Books, 1967; Tekeningen van Jacob Jordaens. 1593-1678. Antwerp: Rubenshuis, 1966; The Royal Museum, Brussels. London, Oldbourne Press, 1966; and Baudouin, Frans. Rubens en zijn tijd. Tekeningen uit Belgische verzamelingen. Antwerp: Rubenshuis, 1971; Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from the Collection of Frits Lugt, Institut néerlandais, Paris. Paris: Institut néerlandais, 1972; Jordaens Drawings. 4 vols. New York: Phaidon Press, 1974; Jacob Jordaens, tekeningen en grafiek: catalogus. Antwerp: Museum Plantin-Moretus, 1978; Jacob Jordaens. Antwerp: Mercatorfonds, 1982, English: Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982; and Vandenven, M. Rubens: the Old Testament. Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard 3. London: Harvey Miller, 1989; “Elk volgens zijn begaafdheid” in D’Hulst and others, (Buyle, Marie-Anne ed) De Kruisoprichting van Pieter Paul Rubens. Brussels: Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap. Bestuur Monumenten en Landschappen. Roularta Books, 1992, pp. 23-41; and De Poorter, N. and Vandenven, M. Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). 1. Schilderijen en wandtapijten, 2. Tekeningen en prenten. Antwerp, 1993.


    Sources

    Baudouin, Frans. “Woord vooraf/Preface.” Rubens and his World: Bijdragen – Études – Studies – Beiträge. Opgedragen aan Prof. Dr. Ir. R.-A. d’Hulst naar aanleiding van het vijfentwintigjarig bestaan van het Natioinaal Centrum voor de Plastische Kunsten van de 16de en de 17de Eeuw. Antwerp: Het Gulden Cabinet, 1985, pp. ix-xvii; Baudouin, Frans. “Hulst, Roger-Adolf d’ ” Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek 16. Brussel: Paleis der Academiën, 2002, pp. 458-465; [obituaries:] “Roger-A. d’Hulst, Rubens Expert, 77” New York Times (24 February 1996); Bruyn, J. “Levensbericht R. A. d’Hulst” in Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie voor Wetenschappen. Levensberichten en herdenkingen. Amsterdam, 1997, pp.15-18; Baudouin, Frans. “In Memoriam R.-A. d’Hulst.” in Jaarboek 2000. Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten. Brussel, 2001, pp. 113-117.


    Archives

    The Roger-A. d’Hulst Collection. Rubenianum archive. https://www.rubenianum.be/en/page/roger-d‘hulst-collection



    Citation

    "Hulst, Roger d’." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/hulstr/.


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