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Born 1958 in Delft, Pier van
Leeuwen studied as a graphic artist at the Royal Academy of
Visual Arts in The Haghe and later as e museologist at the
Reinwardt Academy in Leyden. From 1989 he worked with a
number of Dutch museums in various capacities including
those of exhibition designer, consultant and curator. |
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In 1997 he became
Curator of The Museum of The Dutch Clock in Zaandam, which
now exhibits the most complete survey of the history of the
Dutch clock. Pier has several publications to his name
including those on such subjects as Dutch Designer Glass,
Modern Sculpture in Zaanstad and the painter Thijmen Moll of
Huizen.
In 2002 Pier started a project for the Boom-Time
Foundation in Utrecht, building a website for a virtual
catalogue of Dutch signed clocks, now on-line since 2004. |
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