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Matthi Forrer

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Art Historian

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Matthi Forrer (Amsterdam, 1948) is an art historian specialized in the arts of the Japanese Edo period, prints, paintings, illustrated books, and publishing history, as well as Dutch-Japanese relations. He was the curator of Japanese arts at the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, from 1984, and professor of Japanese culture at Leiden University from 2002. He is the author of numerous publications, most recently a series of monographs on Hokusai (2010), Hiroshige (2017), and Kuniyoshi (2020), all for Prestel, and curated many international exhibitions, such as Hokusai Prints and Drawings (Royal Academy of Arts, 1991), Hiroshige Prints and Drawings (Royal Academy of Arts, 1997), Hokusai Bridging East and West (Japan, 1998), Siebold & Hokusai and his Tradition (Japan, 2007), Sharaku (Tokyo National Museum, 2011, co-curator), Kakemono, Five Centuries of Japanese Painting (Lugano, 2020 and Torino, 2021).