Dutch art historian and curator Rudi Fuchs has died at the age of 84 in Amsterdam. His family announced his death on Sunday to the Amsterdam daily newspaper Het Parool .

Born in 1942 in Eindhoven, Rudolf Herman “Rudi” Fuchs studied art history from 1967 to 1975 at Leiden University. In 1975, at the age of 32, he was appointed director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven; at the time he was the youngest museum director in the Netherlands. It was the beginning of a storied career as one of Europe’s leading museum directors.

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