in memoriam

Jørgen Steen Jensen (1938-2025)

Jørgen Steen Jensen was a Danish historian, numismatist and museum curator and a long time member of FIDEM.

Jørgen Steen Jensen was employed at the National Museum (Copenhagen, Denmark) in 1958. Seven years later, he became the curator of the Royal Coin and Medal Collection. In 1983, he took over as chief curator and head of the collection.

He participated in several congresses and gave lectures about historical art medals as well as modern ones, both in English and in French .

I will never forget the XXXI FIDEM congress in Tampere (Finland) where he, during the opening of the exhibition, seated, was looking at the medals while the band was playing. I managed to get this moment on a picture. I did not want to break this moment and when I later approached him, he said: "Dette er et fantastisk øjeblik: smuk kunst ledsaget af dejlige melodier. Hvad kan man ellers bede om." (This is a great moment: beautiful art accompanied by nice tunes. What else can one ask for.)

 

 

Marie-Astrid Voisin Pelsdonk

 

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Berendina de Ruiter (1942-2025)

Berendina de Ruiter was a Dutch-born Australian artist working in Italian Carrara and Australian marble and other stones.

 

She had a passion in art and especially sculpture. She studied sculpture at the Canberra Institute of the Arts, gaining a Bachelor of Visual Arts degree.

 

 

Berendina de Ruiter participated with her medal art in several FIDEM congresses, the last one being the XXXVII congress in Florence in 2023.

 

 

Marie-Astrid Voisin Pelsdonk

 

Illustrations :
1 – Grief (Homage to Wieland Foerster), 2008 - Marble, 80 mm
2 – The Nest, 2015 - Onyx and bronze, 65 x 41 mm
3 – Refugees, 2004 - Bronze, 105 mm