Eelco Kappe has a Ph.D. in Marketing from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Between 2011 and 2018, he worked as a marketing professor at the Pennsylvania State University, and he has several scholarly publications in the top journals in economics, management, marketing, and psychology. In 2018, he decided to follow his passion for art and focus on writing about art. He is the founder of both tripimprover.com, an art history website, and the author of Hans Zatzka - A Unique Fantasy World. He hopes that his work allows a larger audience to enjoy art.