Babette Claassen
As a young art historian, Babette is a real professional with an extraordinary love for art and entrepreneurship. She has always been fascinated by the interesting combination of art history, organisation and commerce. Coming from an entrepreneurial family, she inherited these interests from home. During her studies in art history, but also afterwards, she devoted herself to practically combine these passions with her communication skills. From this background Babette always provides you with personal, professional, but above all appropriate advice.
Experience
Babette has performed various projects and acitivities for:
- Vrije Academie
- The Royal Association of Art Dealers in the Netherlands (Koninklijke VHOK)
- Pygmalion fine art gallery (Kunsthandel Pygmalion)
- Discover Rembrandt (Enterprise & Art)
- The Six Collection Amsterdam
- Rijksmuseum/VU University Amsterdam (Linked Art Provenance project)
- The New Church/Hermitage Amsterdam (departments: Marketing & Sales and Exhibitions)
- Venduehuis Auctioneers The Hague
- Corporate collection De Nederlandsche Bank (the central bank of the Netherlands)
- The Kunstgang gallery Leiden (The gallery functions as an inter-disciplinary platform for emerging artists or graduates of an art academy)
Education
Master Art, Market and Connoisseurship 2017-2019
VU University Amsterdam
MA thesis: Between connoisseurship and commerce. The image of the Dutch art dealer in contemporary art between 1850 and 1917.
Bachelor Art History 2013-2017
Leiden University
BA thesis: Porcelain as a pamphlet. A research into the role of porcelain and earthenware as a carrier of politcal messages in the fight between patriots and Orangists.
Minor Creative Economy 2015
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Anglia Examinations England 2013
English speaking, listing and writing skills. Certificate: Proficiency level (C2, grade: distinction)