Ursula Hoff

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Ursula Hoff (born December 26, 1909 in London ; died January 10, 2005 in Melbourne ) was an Australian art historian.

Life

Ursula Hoff was the daughter of the London merchant Hans Leopold Hoff and the German Thusnelde Bulcke, who came from a wealthy background. The family moved to Hamburg, where Ursula Hoff grew up and attended school. In 1929 she graduated from the Gymnasium Klosterschule and began studying art history, philosophy, archeology and English in Frankfurt am Main, Cologne, Munich and Hamburg, where she received her doctorate from Erwin Panofsky in 1935 with a dissertation on Rembrandt and England . Hoff had already emigrated to England after the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, where she was soon given British citizenship because of her place of birth.

In London she worked alongside her dissertation as a student assistant at the Courtauld Institute , in 1935/36 she had a position as research assistant at the Henry Oppenheim Collection, in 1937 she worked for the Royal Academy of Arts and in 1938/39 for the private scholar and Rubens researcher Ludwig Burchard . Hoff moved to Australia in December 1939, where she was initially an academic tutor at the Women's College at the University of Melbourne . Hoff was employed at the National Gallery of Victoria from 1943 to 1973 , initially as Assistant Keeper, then Keeper, Curator and from 1968 as Deputy Director of the Graphic Department.

Hoff wrote numerous articles, edited catalogs and was editor of the Art Bulletin of Victoria at the National Gallery from 1959 to 1973 . In addition, in 1948 she became the first woman to teach at the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne. In her retirement, she advised the Felton Bequest in London from 1975 to 1984 . She acquired an important collection of Indian paintings for the National Gallery of Victoria .

Hoff received an honorary doctorate from Monash University , was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE in 1970, and was promoted to Officer of the Order of Australia in 1985 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Rembrandt and England . Quakenbrück: Kleinert, 1935. Dissertation Hamburg 1935
  • Charles I, Patron of the Arts . London: Collins, 1942
  • Masterpieces of the National Gallery of Victoria . Melbourne: Cheshire, 1949
  • Charles Conder, His Australian Years . Melbourne: National Gallery Society, 1961
  • European Painting and Sculpture before 1800 . Melbourne: National Gallery Society, 1961
  • In memory of Franz Philipp , in: Art Bulletin of Victoria , 12, 1970/71, p. 30 [Obituary for the German émigré and art historian] ( digitized version )
  • with Martin Davies : Les primitifsflamands I, vol. 12: The National Gallery of Victoria . 1971
  • The National Gallery of Victoria . Thames and Hudson, London 1973 ISBN 0-500-20133-1
  • The art of Arthur Boyd . London: A. Deutsch, 1986 ISBN 978-0-233-97824-6

literature

  • Hoff, Ursula , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical manual of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, pp. 314-317
  • Festschrift . Art Bulletin National Gallery of Victoria. 28, Melbourne, 1987 ( digitized with portrait photo)
  • Sheridan Palmer: Center of the Periphery: Three European Art Historians in Melbourne . Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008
  • Colin Holden: The Outsider: A Portrait of Ursula Hoff . North Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009
  • A Tribute to Dr Ursula Hoff AO OBE . Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2005
  • Ute Heinen: Emigration Australia: Ursula Hoff and Gertrude Langer two European art historians and their influence on the development of art history as a scientific discipline on the Australian continent . Gettorf, 2004
  • Peter Burke : Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500-2000 . Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press, 2017 ISBN 9781512600384

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henry J Oppenheim , at the British Museum
personal data
SURNAME Hoff, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2005
Place of death Melbourne