[6] After studying law for a few years, in 1964 Van Krimpen became of director of the Binnenhuis Ahoy fair in Rotterdam.

[6] In 1967 as director at the Rotterdam Ahoy Van Krimpen managed his first more prominent event, the Hippy Happy Beurs for teens and twens.

[7] There where performances of the Bee Gees, The Kinks, Keith West, Soft Machine and Pink Floyd as well.

In 1998 he moved to the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden and in 2000 he was back in The Hague, where he served as director of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag until 2009.

[3] In 2011 he was awarded the Benno Premsela Prize for his stimulating role in the field of visual arts, design or architecture.