Dr. Erik Fischer (1920-2011) was an art historian employed at the Department of Prints and Drawings in Copenhagen from 1948 until retiring in 1990. He served as keeper from 1964, and from the same year he also taught at the University of Copenhagen. He curated exhibitions and published studies on artists from the 16th century and onwards. Fischer began working on Melchior Lorck in the late 1950s. Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen (born 1970), is an art historian, presently employed at The Royal Danish Collection. He has taught art history and renaissance studies at the University of Copenhagen and worked at The Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle and at The Danish National Art Library. As author and editor, he has published on Lorck and European-Ottoman encounters in the Early Modern Period. Ernst Jonas Bencard (born 1961), is an art historian. Employed at the Thorvaldsen’s Museum in Copenhagen 2004-19, he founded and headed the web-based research platform The Thorvaldsens Museum Archives. As of 2020, he has conducted research at The Hirschsprung Collection, also in Copenhagen. His main area of research is Danish and European art of the nineteenth century.