Cornelius Müller Hofstede
Cornelius Müller Hofstede (2 February 1898 - 29 July 1974) was a German art historian and museum director. From 1957 to 1963 he was director of the Gemäldegalerie in West Berlin. His son Justus (1929–2015) was also an art historian. Life Born in Geisa, he was the son of pastor Müller. His mother was sister of the Dutch scholar Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863–1930). He passing his school-leaving certificate in Weimar in 1918 before studying at the universities in München under Heinrich Wölfflin, Vienna and Berlin. In 1924 he gained his doctorate in Berlin, supervised by Adolph Goldschmidt, with a thesis entitled "Contribtuions on Biblical history paintings in the 16th and 17th century Netherlands". Even at that time he worked for a period with his uncle Hofstede de Groot in The Hague. In the following years he published several studies of Dutch Baroque painters, which showed him to be a knowled After some time volunteering at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich and at ...
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