Edith Hoffmann (art historian, 1888)

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Edith Hoffmann (born December 7, 1888 in Kronstadt , Austria-Hungary ; died April 6, 1945 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian art historian and curator of the Szépművészeti Múzeum .

Life

Edith Hoffmann was born in Transylvania . Her father Frigyes Hoffmann (1853–1938) was a teacher at the Eötvös Collegium in Budapest . Her sister Maria Hoffmann (1884–1949) became a librarian and literary historian and married the writer Tivadar Rédey , whom Hoffmann painted in 1928 in one of her silhouette pictures. She herself married the lawyer Sándor Bernhardt, the marriage was divorced after a short time.

Hoffmann studied philology at the University of Budapest with Gyula Pasteiner, among others, and received his doctorate in 1910. From 1913 she worked as a scientific museum employee at the Szépművészeti Múzeum and started in the graphic department. In 1921 she became department head in the museum and in 1936 director under the general director Dénes Csánky . Hoffmann published a monograph on Miklós Barabás in 1923 and then wrote a large number of museum guides, art history books and magazine articles. She belonged to the Hungarian Bibliophile Society (Magyar Bibliophil Társaság).

Portrait of her brother-in-law Tivadar Rédey, February 29, 1928
In Esztergom at Mihály Babits you can find her autograph on this photo at one o'clock

Together with her sister and brother-in-law, she lived in the world of Budapest writers and artists in the 1920s and 1930s. Hoffmann had an accident at the end of the war in 1945 on the way to her place of work in a traffic accident.

Fonts (selection)

  • Barabás Miklós . Pantheon, Budapest 1923 ( digitized; PDF ) New edition 1950.
  • The artistic ornament of the Corvin Codices . 1925 ( digital copy of a special print; PDF ).
  • Középkori Könyvkultúránk néhány fontos emlékéről . Budapest, 1925
  • A Nemzeti Múzeum Széchényi Könyvtárának illusztrált kéziratai . Budapest: M. Nemz. Múzeum Orsz. Széchényi Könyvtára, 1928
  • Dürer literature in Hungary, 1800–1928 . Budapest: Kgl. Hungarian University Printing House, 1928
  • Alexius Petrovics (text), Bruno Reiffenstein (photos): Budapest in pictures . Translation by Edith Hoffmann. Vienna, Epstein, 1928
  • Osvát Ernő sziluettrajza , in: Nyugat, 1930, issue 1
  • Régi magyar bibliofilek . Budapest: Magyar Bibliophil Tarsasag, 1929
  • Applied arts and some other drawings in the Museum of Fine Arts . Budapest, 1935
  • Magyar festészet a XIX. sz.-ban . Budapest, 1936
  • Jegyzetek a régi magyar táblaképfestészethez . Budapest: Franklin Ny., 1937 (old Hungarian panel painting)
  • Pozsony a középkorban . Budapest, 1938
  • Erdélyi művészek stílusalakító törekvései , in: Nyugat, 1940, issue 11
  • Mátyás király Könyvtára . Budapest, 1940
  • Szinyei Merse Pál . Budapest: Szépművészeti Múzeum, 1943
  • Művészfejek . Budapest: Révai, 1945

literature

  • Artúr Elek : A Szépművészeti Múzeum Évkönyve. In: Nyugat , No. 2, 1927
  • Dr. Hoffmann Edith emlékkiállítás . Budapest: Országos Magyar Szépmüvészeti Muzeum, 1948, 52 pages
  • Gábor Tolnai : Árnyból szőtt lelkek. Hoffmann Edith sziluettjei. Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Orszagos Szechenyi Könyvtár, Budapest 1988, ISBN 963-13-2627-6 (a work on Hoffmann's silhouette painting )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tibor Gerevich: Az Eötvös Collegium története - Bartoniek Géza (1854–1930). In: Lustrum. Ménesi út 11-13. : sollemnia aedificii a. D. MCMXI inaugurati. Budapest 2011, p. 98 ( digitized; PDF ).
  2. ↑ A nemzeti Koenyvtár első női Koenyvtárosa: Hoffmann Mária , blog, there also a street photo of the sisters from 1925
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Edith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian art historian and curator of the Szépművészeti Múzeum
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Brașov
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1945
Place of death Budapest