Anke Van Wagenberg

Anke A. Van Wagenberg-Ter Hoeven, PhD, is a Dutch art historian. She grew up in The Netherlands. After her Masters in Art History and Archaeology, she earned her PhD in Art History from the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, with a dissertation on the celebration of Twelfth Night (Driekoningenfeest) in Dutch and Flemish Paintings, published by the P.J. Meertens Institute, a research institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has published in Simiolus, Print Quarterly, Artibus et Historiae and elsewhere.

She came to the USA in 1987 and began her career at the National Gallery of Art, in Northern Baroque Painting. Next she worked for the Walters Art Museum, served as Gallery Director at the University of Maryland, and taught Art History for twelve years in the University of Maryland System and at Washington College, Chestertown, MD.

From 2011 - 2019 she was Curator at the AAM-accredited Academy Art Museum, in Easton, Maryland, not far from Washington, D.C. Her curated exhibitions included solos on James Turrell, Pat Steir, Rothko, Diebenkorn, Rauschenberg and completed the research and writing of the volumes on Jan Baptist Weenix and Jan Weenix with c. 500 entries and a total of c. 800 pages.

She is currently documenting their drawings for a follow-up publication.

Anke worked at the Norton Museum of Art, as Harold and Anne Berkley Smith Senior Curator of American and European Art in West Palm Beach, FL. She resides in Easton, Maryland while serving as Senior Curator and Head of International Collaborations at the American Federation of Arts in New York, NY.