Pijbes: of Course is my departure at Voorlinden striking – The Guardian

Wim Pijbes (54), the director of the museum that rapidly starts at the Wassenaarse Museum Voorlinden, is ‘glad’ that he can depart on the way that his new employer this afternoon, made known. On 1 October the former director of the Rijksmuseum only director of the newly opened museum, where the private contemporary art collection of businessman Joop van Caldenborgh will be exhibited.

that,of Course is my departure too obvious, but I’m glad we’re on this way. The museum is open and everyone can move forward: the museum itself, Joop van Caldenborgh, and I. It’s fine as it is.”

The departure of Pijbes at the museum, that was over two weeks ago, it was opened by king Willem-Alexander, was announced with a brief press release. Pijbes acknowledges that there is little explanation in the state: ,,But sometimes you do that in a relationship.”

Space
In conversation with The newspaper de Volkskrant explains Pijbes that he is “more space wished’. It surprised Van Caldenborgh: ,,He would finally have all the tasks on Museum Voorlinden take over, except for the purchases, as he himself had proposed. But he was not happy and then I’m not.’

New jobs
,,The museum is nationally and internationally put on the map and is ready for the future”, says in a statement that today has been sent. Pijbes is in addition to his directorship at new jobs focus.

Acquaintances, acquaintances, and friends boast Pijbes as a man who, seemingly with ease, the bluff, intelligence, courage, business acumen and taste with a sharp marketingantenne combines. ,,He knows no equal”, ruled, Joop Daalmeijer, the outgoing president of the Council for Culture, the earlier in the AD.

Light reign of terror
Also, there is a side of Pijbes that are much less known: that of the extremely vain, hard-nosed manager, which is absolutely no criticism tolerated. ,,A man who is a light reign of terror as people him for the feet”, says someone who years with Pijbes worked, on condition of anonymity. Because, As Wim knows that you are negative talks about him, you have a problem. He wants the image of him exists above all in maintaining, that to know his surroundings all too well.”

Pijbes said at the end of August compared to the ANP that his transition from the Rijksmuseum to the Museum Voorlinden a ,,contrast on all surfaces”. ,,But that was exactly what I was looking for.” Around the opening of the museum, he said in various media very taken with his new appointment. At De wereld Draait door (DWDD) he said: ,,I wanted to do something different, and that is more than successful”. He told to have arrived in a kind of paradise, Garden of Eden”.