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Axel Rüger

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Axel Rüger is a German art historian, curator and museum director. Since 2019 he has led the Royal Academy of Arts in London and in spring 2025 will assume the directorship of the Frick Collection in New York. Previously, he served as director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam between 2006 and 2019, and worked as a curator of Dutch art at the National Gallery in London.