Ger Luijten began his career as a museum curator in 1987, when he was appointed assistant in the prints and drawings department of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), where he remained until 1990.

He then moved to the Print Room of the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), becoming its director in 2001. During these years, he was responsible for several major exhibition projects, such as Dawn of the Golden Age. Northern Netherlandish Art, 1580–1620 (1993–1994) and Mirror of Everyday Life: Genre Prints in the Netherlands, 1550–1700 (1997), both held at the Rijksmuseum.

In 2012, he moved to Paris to become Director of the Fondation Custodia, an institution that holds one of the world’s most remarkable collections of prints and drawings, particularly by seventeenth-century Dutch masters.

The library Ger Luijten assembled throughout his career reflects his research interests, particularly focused on European art history between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. It contains numerous studies on major artists who shaped artistic production in those periods, as well as exhibition catalogues from leading Western museums.

From this collection, the Art Library selected and received, as a donation to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation by Regina Peixeiro Luijten, around 700 titles, which will be catalogued and made available for consultation from next year onwards.