Marthe Crick-Kuntziger


Marthe Crick-Kuntziger was a Belgian museum curator at the Royal Museums of Art and History, where she specialized in tapestries and was the author of a hundred publications in her field. She was awarded the five-yearly Edmond Marchal Prize of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium for 1933–1937.

Life

In 1919, Marthe Crick-Kuntziger graduated with a doctorate in art history and archeology from the University of Liège, where she studied with Marcel Laurent. This was a time when few women attended university.
She created the catalogues of the drawings and the engravings in the city of Liège collections. She wrote a monograph on the drawings of Lambert Lombard. She contributed to L'Art en Belgique, edited by Paul Fierens, and wrote a section on the decorative arts for Stan Leurs' multivolume Geschiedenis van de Vlaamsche Kunst.
In 1930 she participated in the international congress for art history in Brussels. She was a member of the Royal Academy of Archaeology of Belgium, and the Royal Archaeological Society of Brussels, of which she was president from 1949.

Publications

  • "A Fragment of Guillaume De Hellande's Tapestries", Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, 45:260, pp. 225-231.
  • "L'Auteur Des Cartons De 'Vertumne Et Pomone'", Oud-Holland, 44:1, pp. 159-173.
  • "The Tapestries in the Palace of Liege", Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, 50:289, pp. 172-183.
  • "Bernard van Orley et le décor mural en tapisserie", in Bernard van Orley 1488–1541.Les Tapisseries de l'Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles.