Dr Stephan Kemperdick was born in 1960 in Düsseldorf, Germany. He studied fine arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, then art history at the Free University Berlin and graduated in 1992; obtained his PhD in 1996. Assistant curator Städel Museum, Frankfurt (1999–2002); worked on a catalogue at the Gemäldegalerie Berlin (2003–4); curator of Old Masters paintings, Kunstmuseum Basel (2005–7). Since 2008 curator of Early Netherlandish and German paintings, Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. His publications include monographs on the Master of Flémalle (1997), Rogier van der Weyden (1999), Martin Schongauer (2004) and collection catalogues of early German paintings at the Städel Frankfurt (2002, 2004) and the Gemäldegalerie Berlin (2010). Curator and co-curator of several exhibitions, e.g.: The Early Portrait (2006); Hans Holbein the Younger. The Basel Years (2006); The Master of Flémalle and Rogier van der Weyden (2008–9); The Road to Van Eyck (2012–13); The History of the Ghent Altarpiece (2014); Holbein in Berlin (2016); Hieronymus Bosch and His Imagery in the 16th and 17th Centuries (2016); Jean Fouquet, the Diptych of Melun (2017).