Claus Michael Kauffmann

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Claus Michael Kauffmann (born February 5, 1931 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a British art historian.

Life

Claus Michael Kauffmann is a son of the art dealer Arthur I. Kauffmann and the doctor Tamara Karp. His brother Edgar Kauffmann (born 1923) became a doctor. The family had to emigrate from National Socialist Germany in 1938 and initially came to Burnley , Lancashire. He attended Clitheroe Grammar School (1940–43), St Paul's School, Berkshire, and a school in London (1943–48). He studied history from 1950 to 1953 at Merton College , Oxford, (BA) and then at the Warburg Institute , University of London, where he was a Junior Research Fellow and received his doctorate in art history in 1957. In 1954 Kauffmann married Dorothea Hill, who was born in Berlin in 1931 and who had also fled; they have two children.

Kauffmann was an assistant in the photographic collection of the Warburg Institute in 1957/58 and worked as an assistant keeper at the Manchester Art Gallery from 1958 to 1960 . From 1960 to 1985 he worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum as an assistant keeper in the Prints & Drawings and Paintings department and from 1975 as keeper. In 1969 he was invited to teach at the University of Chicago .

Kauffmann became professor of art history at the Courtauld Institute in 1985 and at the same time held the position of director until 1995 at a time of rapid growth in student numbers and organizational changes.

Kauffmann held various offices and functions in the public art business. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1987 .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Baths of Pozzuoli. A Study of the Medieval Illuminations of Peter of Eboli's Poem . Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1959
  • The Legend of St. Ursula. A survey based on the painting “The Martyrdom of St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins” in the Victoria and Albert Museum and other works. With reproductions . London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1964
  • The Barbizon school . London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1965
  • Paintings at Apsley House . London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1965
  • An altar-piece of the Apocalypse from Master Bertram's Workshop in Hamburg . London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1968
  • Romanesque MSS 1066-1190 . London: Harvey Miller, 1975
  • Paintings, water-colors and miniatures . London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1978 ISBN 0905209109
  • John Varley: 1778-1842 . London: Batsford in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1984 ISBN 0713434023
  • Biblical imagery in medieval England 700–1550 . London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2002 ISBN 1872501044

literature

  • Kauffmann, Claus Michael , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 604

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kauffmann, Prof. C. Michael , in: Who's Who 2013
  2. ^ A History of the Courtauld , The Courtauld Institute of Art
personal data
SURNAME Kauffmann, Claus Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main