Hessel Miedema (21 January 1929, Sneek – 14 April 2019)[1] was a leading Dutch art historian and the world authority on Karel van Mander.
In 1963 he returned to Amsterdam to write his dissertation on Karel van Mander.
[2] Though best known for his (Dutch and English) work on Van Mander, he is also an artist and linguistics expert who has written poems and stories in his native Frisian.
He wrote the poem De greate wrakseling with illustrations by his own hand in West Frisian in 1964 about a sculptor who fights for innovation against the strict structures of musea.
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