Acclaimed Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf has died at age 64. His work documented topics ranging from gay nightlife in Amsterdam to portraits of the Dutch royal family.
Taco Dibbits, director of the Rijksmuseum, paid tribute in a statement on the Amsterdam museum’s website.
He called Olaf “an artist with enormous drive and with a very great eye for detail. The Rijksmuseum received its core collection in 2018 and considered Erwin Olaf a sincere friend. We’ll miss him.” He worked in advertising — once portraying nuns in jeans for a clothing company — as well as in the world of high art and portraiture.
In March, Willem-Alexander awarded Olaf with the Dutch Royal House’s Medal of Honor for Art and Science. It honored him for “using a daring approach to portraiture to address themes such as ethnicity, sexual diversity and economic inequality.”
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