Robert Noortman, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRobert Noortman
Dutch art dealer
Date of Birth: 05-Mar-1946
Date of Death: 14-Jan-2007
Profession: art collector
Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Robert Noortman
- Robert Christiaan Noortman (5 March 1946 – 14 January 2007) was a Dutch art dealer. Noortman, born in Heemstede opened his first gallery in Hulsberg.
- In 1974 he expanded to London and later also to New York City.
- In 1980 he moved his Hulsberg gallery to Maastricht to merge it with the already existing gallery there, while he closed his foreign galleries.
- In June 2006 he sold his last gallery for 44 million euros and still remained in function as a director.Robert Noortman was instrumental in the founding of the Maastricht-based The European Fine Art Fair and for ten years was TEFAF's director. For fun Noortman studied for and graduated as a commercial pilot and later flew through twelve European countries in one single day by daylight.
- This record was named in the Guinness Book of Records. Noortman suffered from osteoarthritis and cancer, but died because of a myocardial infarction on 14 January 2007 in Kuttekoven, two days after he received an award from the city of Maastricht for his positive influence on Maastricht and its area.
- Earlier in his life he already won the title of "Honorary Liveryman of the City of London" and the " Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" in France.Shortly after his death Noortman was accused of art theft, willful destruction of artworks and insurance fraude.
- The investigations by the police, private detectives, the Art Loss Register, Sotheby's and the insurance companies involved, has not led to a verdict.The gallery, owned by Sotheby's, continued with Noortman's son William as its director, but suffered from negative publicity.
- After moving first to Amsterdam and then to London, it closed in 2013.
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