Evelyn Brockhoff

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Evelyn Brockhoff (* 1955 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German art historian . She is the director of the Institute for Urban History of the City of Frankfurt .

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Evelyn Brockhoff was born as Evelyn Hils in Frankfurt am Main. From 1976 to 1982 she studied art history , archeology and cultural anthropology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . She has been working for the city of Frankfurt since 1985. At the University of Frankfurt she received her doctorate in 1987 on the subject of " Johann Friedrich Christian Hess , City Architect of Classicism in Frankfurt am Main from 1816–1845". From 1989 to 1996 she was the vice-director of the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt. She then moved to the Institute for Urban History, which she has headed since 2004.

She is the editor and co-author of numerous publications on the history of Frankfurt. In 2014 she was awarded the Hessian Order of Merit in particular for her concept for the renovation of the Carmelite Monastery .

Works (selection)

  • Evelyn Hils: Johann Friedrich Christian Hess. City architect of classicism in Frankfurt am Main from 1816–1845. Waldemar Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-7829-0364-1 ( Studies on Frankfurt History 24).
  • Evelyn Hils-Brockhoff (Ed.): The Carmelite Monastery in Frankfurt am Main . History and art monuments, Frankfurt am Main 1999.
  • as editor: Gallery painting from St.Katharinen: A Frankfurt gem . Waldemar Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-78290569-5 .
  • Evelyn Brockhoff (Ed.): The Institute for City History - Frankfurt's memory since 1436 . Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-86539-690-7 .

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SURNAME Brockhoff, Evelyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hils-Brockhoff, Evelyn; Hils, Evelyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main