Paul Hofer (art historian)

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Paul Hofer (born August 8, 1909 in Bern ; † December 26, 1995 there ) was a Swiss art historian who specialized in the history of architecture and urban development.

Life

Paul Hofer was born on August 8, 1909 as the son of Friedrich Hofer in Bern. From 1931 to 1933, Paul Hofer studied art history at the University of Munich and then at the University of Bern , where he completed his doctorate in 1938 . Hofer completed his habilitation in 1948 and worked from 1954 to 1962 as a professor of art and architectural history at the University of Bern and from 1962 to 1964 at the University of Lausanne . Most recently, from 1964 to 1980, he held the chair for urban history and restoration at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich .

Paul Hofer, who married Bertha Gertrud Wild in 1942, died on December 26, 1995 at the age of 86 in Bern. His estate is in the Bern Burger Library .

Act

Hofer's works include the inventory of architectural monuments in the city of Bern, Art Monuments of Switzerland, Canton Bern , Volumes 1 to 3 and 5, 1947–69, The cities of the Central Plateau in the Middle Ages and the cities in Asia Minor and Italy . In his research , Paul Hofer first recorded the building structures and, based on this, formulated theoretical interpretation patterns that put the spatial concept in the foreground.

literature

  • Paul Hofer at the architecture school , 1980
  • The city with properties , published by André Corboz, 1991, with a list of works
  • Professeurs Lausanne , 606
  • Tom Steinert: Complex perception and modern urban planning: Paul Hofer, Bernhard Hoesli and their conception of the "dialogic city" Park Books, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-906027-44-9 (Slightly revised and updated version of the dissertation Bauhaus University-University Weimar 2012, 583 pages).
  • Paul Hofer: The art monuments of the canton of Bern . The city of Bern - cityscape · fortifications · city gates · installations · monuments · bridges · city fountains · hospitals · orphanages. Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History (=  Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz . Volume 28 ). tape 1 . Birkhäuser Verlag , Basel 1952 (467 pp., Unibe.ch [PDF; 68.9 MB ; accessed on February 4, 2018]).
  • Paul Hofer: The art monuments of the canton of Bern . The city of Bern - social houses and residential buildings. Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History (=  Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz . Volume 40 ). tape 2 . Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1959 (495 pp., Unibe.ch [PDF; 65.0 MB ; accessed on February 4, 2018]).
  • Paul Hofer: The art monuments of the canton of Bern . The state buildings of the city of Bern. Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History (=  Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz . Volume 19 ). tape 3 . Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1982, ISBN 3-7643-1391-9 (513 pages, unibe.ch [PDF; 66.6 MB ; accessed on February 4, 2018] German: The art monuments of the Canton of Bern - The state buildings of the city of Bern . 1947.).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Paul Hofer's estate in the catalog of the Bern Burger Library
personal data
SURNAME Hofer, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art historian who specialized in the history of architecture and urban development
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1995
Place of death Bern