About Willemijn Fock
Lived 1942 – 2021 (aged 78). Willemijn Fock was a Dutch university teacher and art historian.
Cornelia Wilhelmina "Willemijn" Fock (25 June 1942 – 3 June 2021) was a Dutch art historian. She was professor of the history of applied arts at Leiden University.
Career Fock obtained her doctorate at Leiden University in 1975 with a dissertation on the goldsmith Jacques Bylivelt at the court of Florence. In 1982, she became a professor of the history of applied arts at the same university. She was mainly concerned with the history of interior decoration and furniture, tapestries and goldsmithing. She wrote books about residential culture and Rapenburg in Leiden. Fock retired in 2007. In 2019, she was awarded an honorary membership of the Vereniging van Nederlandse Kunsthistorici (Association of Dutch Art Historians).
Fock died on 3 June 2021.
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Who was Willemijn Fock?
Dutch university teacher
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Willemijn Fock was born on 25 June 1942 in Surabaya.
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Willemijn Fock died on 3 June 2021 in The Hague.
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