Meike Hoffmann

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Meike Hoffmann (* 1962 ) is a German art historian and provenance researcher .

Live and act

Hoffmann studied art history , classical archeology , folklore and library sciences at the University of Kiel and at the Free University of Berlin . In Berlin it was in 2005 with one of Werner Busch supervised dissertation on the artist group "bridge" to Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1990 to 1994 she worked as a research assistant at the Berlin gallery Theis and for the Ceramic Museum Berlin . From 1992 to 1995 she was teaching art history at the Goethe Institute in Berlin. From 1995 to 1999 she was a research volunteer and employee at the Brücke-Museum Berlin and from 1999 to 2006 she worked as a freelance art historian, author and exhibition curator.

Since November 2006 she has been a research assistant at the research center “ Degenerate Art ” at the Free University, which was founded in 2003 and financed by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the Ferdinand Möller Foundation , and has been teaching since the 2007/08 winter semester . She conceived the provenance research course , which has been offered since the 2011 summer semester.

In 2010 she was involved in the identification of the so-called Berlin sculpture find.

After the Schwabing art find in 2012, she was commissioned to assess the works of so-called classical modernism in the Gurlitt holdings and took part in the press conference on the art find in Augsburg on November 5, 2013.

As a result, she was an official member of the “Schwabinger Kunstfund” task force and the follow-up project “Gurlitt Provenance Research” at the German Center for the Loss of Cultural Property.

On March 1, 2017, she took over the scientific coordination of the Mosse Art Research Initiative (MARI) at the Free University of Berlin, the first public-private partnership in provenance research of institutions in Germany and the descendants of the victims of National Socialist persecution.

Works

  • The utility library in Germany (1800-1950); Overview in tables. Institute for Library Science, Humboldt University Berlin 1996. (= Berlin handouts on library science 18.)
  • Life and work of the artist group "Brücke" 1905 to 1913: with an annotated catalog raisonné of business and exhibition graphics. Dissertation, Free University of Berlin. Reimer, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-496-01331-1 .
  • (Ed.) A dealer of “degenerate” art: Bernhard A. Böhmer and his estate. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004498-9 . (= Writings of the research center "Degenerate Art" 3.)
  • Trade in “degenerate art”. In: Good business. Art trade in Berlin 1933–1945. Active Museum of Fascism and Resistance in Berlin, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-034061-1 , pp. 139–144.
  • (Ed.) Festschrift for Wolfgang Wittrock : on his 65th birthday on May 1, 2012. Schwarz, Meerane 2012, ISBN 978-3-9811118-5-9 .
  • Dive into the gray area. Hildebrand Gurlitt and the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts. In: Anja Tiedemann (Ed.): The chamber is writing again! The regulations for the trade in modern art under National Socialism, series of the research center "Degenerate Art", Vol. 10, Munich: de Gruyter 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-044212-0 .
  • Vogelfrei - The fate of “degenerate art” from German museums during the Nazi regime. In: Modern Masters. "Degenerate Art" in the Kunstmuseum Bern, exhibition cat. Kunstmuseum Bern, Munich: Prestel 2016, ISBN 978-3-7913-5535-1 .
  • Hitler's art dealer. Hildebrand Gurlitt 1895-1956. The biography , Munich: CH Beck 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69094-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Study for the search for the origin. Deutschlandradio Kultur from April 19, 2011, accessed on November 3, 2013.
  2. ^ Precious works of art discovered at the Rotes Rathaus. Berliner Morgenpost from November 8, 2010.
  3. ↑ Nazi treasure stored unsecured in Gurlitt's apartment , Focus dated November 5, 2013, accessed on November 5, 2013.
  4. ^ Colin Moynihan: German Foundation to Help Jewish Heirs in Search for Nazi Looted Art . In: The New York Times . March 7, 2017, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed March 28, 2017]).
  5. ^ Catherine Hickley: Heirs of Jewish publisher team up with German museums to track down Nazi-looted art. The Art Newspaper, accessed March 28, 2017 .
  6. ↑ In Search of Lost Art. April 21, 2017, accessed on May 8, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Meike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and provenance researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1962