Marthe Crick-Kuntziger
Marthe Crick-Kuntziger (1891–1963) was a Belgian museum curator at the Royal Museums of Art and History, where she specialized in tapestries and was the author of a hundred publications in her field. She was awarded the five-yearly Edmond Marchal Prize of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium for 1933–1937. Life. In 1919, Marthe Crick-Kuntziger graduated with a doctorate in art history and archeology from the University of Liège, where she studied with Marcel Laurent. This was a time when few women attended university. She created the catalogues of the  drawings and the engravings (1920) in the city of Liège collections. She wrote a monograph on the drawings of Lambert Lombard. She contributed to "L'Art en Belgique", edited by Paul Fierens, and wrote a section on the decorative arts for Stan Leurs' multivolume "Geschiedenis van de Vlaamsche Kunst". In 1930 she participated in the international congress for art history in Brussels. She was a member of the Royal Academy of Archaeology of Belgium, and the Royal Archaeological Society of Brussels, of which she was president from 1949.