Marthe Crick-Kuntziger

Marthe Crick-Kuntziger (1891–1963) 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 (1920) 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 (1924), pp. 225-231. "L'Auteur Des Cartons De 'Vertumne Et Pomone'", Oud-Holland, 44:1 (1927), pp. 159-173. "The Tapestries in the Palace of Liege", Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, 50:289 (1927), pp. 172-183. "Bernard van Orley et le décor mural en tapisserie", in Bernard van Orley 1488–1541 (Société Royale d’Archéologie de Bruxelles, Brussels, 1943). Les Tapisseries de l'Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles (Antwerp, 1944).