Justus Müller Hofstede

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Justus Müller Hofstede (right) with Griet Blankaert and Paul Verbraeken in Ekeren in 2002

Justus Müller Hofstede (born May 9, 1929 in Berlin ; † April 27, 2015 in Bonn ) was a German art historian .

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Justus Müller Hofstede was the son of the art historian Cornelius Müller Hofstede (1898–1974), who was director of the Berlin Gemäldegalerie from 1957 to 1964 .

Justus Müller Hofstede received his doctorate from the University of Freiburg in 1959 . In 1967 he obtained his habilitation at the University of Bonn on the subject of " Rubens in Italy 1600–1608". He was a professor at the Art History Institute of the University of Bonn and has made expert reports for paintings. From 1996 to 1998 he was a professor at the Graduate School The Renaissance in Italy and its European Reception .

Müller Hofstede was chairman of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein from 1977 to 2004 and in this function co-founder of the Bonn City Museum .

In 1985 he received the Rhineland Thaler , in 1990 the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon and in 1995 the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic .

Publications (selection)

  • Otto van Veen , the teacher of PP Rubens , Freiburg i. B. 1959 [machine writer. Dissertation]
  • (Ed.) Festschrift for Eduard Trier on his sixtieth birthday , Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-7861-1269-X
  • Word and image in Dutch art and literature of the 16th and 17th centuries , Erftstadt 1984,
  • (Ed.) Florence in the early Renaissance. Art - literature - epistolography in the sphere of humanism , CMZ-Verlag, Rheinbach 2002, ISBN 3-87062-090-0
  • Rubens' newly discovered Descent from the Cross for Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Mantua. In: Gerhard Finckh, Ilka Hartje (ed.): Peter Paul Rubens. Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 2012, ISBN 978-3-89202-085-1 , pp. 50–65.

literature

  • Studies in Dutch art. Festschrift for Justus Müller Hofstede. (= Wallraf-Richartz yearbook. West German yearbook for art history . Vol. 55) Cologne: DuMont Schauberg. 1994.
  • Bonn history sheets . Bd. 53/54, Bonn 2004. ISSN  0068-0052 , therein:
    • Heijo Klein: The art historian Justus Müller Hofstede
    • Manfred van Rey : Prof. Dr. Justus Müller Hofstede as chairman of the Bonn Homeland and History Association

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wob - Graduate College: The Renaissance in Italy a. your europ. Rez.:Kunst-Gesch.-Lit. . In: uni-bonn.de .
  2. ↑ http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Preprints/P100.PDF
personal data
SURNAME Müller Hofstede, Justus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller-Hofstede, Justus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2015
Place of death Bonn