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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
Müller-Hofstede 1961 with the rediscovered ''Head of Christ'' by Rembrandt
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
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. His son Justus
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(1929–2015) was also an art historian.
Life
Born inGeisa
Geisa () is a town in the Wartburgkreis district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated in the Rhön Mountains, 26 km northeast of Fulda.
The near border with Hesse was the border between West Germany and the East Germany, GDR during the Cold ...
, he was the son of pastor Müller. His mother was sister of the Dutch scholar Cornelis Hofstede de Groot
Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (9 November 1863 – 14 April 1930), was a Dutch art collector, art historian and museum curator.
Life
He was born in Dwingeloo and spent some time in Switzerland in his youth due to weak lungs, where he learned German ...
(1863–1930). He passing his school-leaving certificate in Weimar
Weimar is a city in the state (Germany), German state of Thuringia, in Central Germany (cultural area), Central Germany between Erfurt to the west and Jena to the east, southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together w ...
in 1918 before studying at the universities in München
Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...
under Heinrich Wölfflin
Heinrich Wölfflin (; 21 June 1864 – 19 July 1945) was a Swiss art historian, esthetician and educator, whose objective classifying principles (" painterly" vs. "linear" and the like) were influential in the development of formal analysis in ...
, Vienna
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and Berlin
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. 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
The Hague ( ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Situated on the west coast facing the North Sea, The Hague is the c ...
. 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
The Bavarian National Museum () in Munich is one of the most important museums of decorative arts in Europe and List of largest art museums, one of the largest art museums in Germany. Since the beginning the collection has been divided into two ...
in Munich
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and at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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under Wilhelm von Bode
Wilhelm von Bode (10 December 1845 – 1 March 1929) was a German art historian and museum curator. Born Arnold Wilhelm Bode in Calvörde, and known as Wilhelm Bode for most of his career, he was ennobled in 1913, and thereafter adopted the ar ...
, he became assistant and head assistant at the art historical seminar of Berlin University under Goldschmidt and Albert Erich Brinckmann. He subsequently adopted the surname ''Müller Hofstede'' (without a hyphen) to avoid confusion with his colleagues.
In 1934 he decided to move into museums and took on a temporary position at the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Breslau, two years later being appointed its managing director. On 23 September 1937 he joined the Nazi Party, with his joining date backdated to 1 May and the membership number 5.825.002.
Selected works
* ''Abraham Bloemaert
Abraham Bloemaert (25 December 1566 – 27 January 1651) was a Dutch painter and printmaker who used etching and engraving. He initially worked in the style of the " Haarlem Mannerists", but by the beginning of the 17th-century altered his style ...
als Landschaftsmaler.'' In: ''Oud Holland'' 44, 1927, p. 193–208.
* with Iohan Quirijn van Regteren Altena: ''Der Maler Jacob van Geel.'' In: ''Jahrbuch der preußischen Kunstsammlungen'' 52, 1931, p. 187–188.
* ''Bemerkungen zu Michael Willmanns Landschaftskunst.'' In: ''Der Oberschlesier'' 19, 1937, p. 245–247.
* ''Monumentale Glasgemälde von Ludwig Peter Kowalski in Schlesien'' (1940)
* ''Ausstellung von fünf Glasmalereien mit verschiedenen Entwürfen für Gobelins und Mosaiken, einer Applikationsarbeit und ausgewählter Gemälde von Ludwig Peter Kowalski anlässlich seines fünfzigsten Geburtstages'' (1941)
* ''Hinter Drahtzaun und Bahnschranke: zur Ausstellung von Professor Alexander Olbricht
Alexander Gustav Georg Olbricht (6 June 1876, in Breslau – 11 November 1942, in Weimar) was a German artist. He created approximately 2,000 graphics, engravings, silhouettes and oil paintings.
Biography
His father, Gustav Olbricht (1851–189 ...
im Schlesischen Museum der bildenden Künste in Breslau'' (1941)
* ''Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (; ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), mononymously known as Rembrandt was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and Drawing, draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in ...
s Familienbild und seine Restaurierung'' (= ''Kunsthefte des Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museums'' 7). Braunschweig 1952.
* ''HdG 409. Eine Nachlese zu den Münchener Civilis-Zeichnungen.'' In: ''Kunsthistorisk Tidskrift'' 25, 1956, p. 42–55.
* ''Untersuchungen über Giorgione
Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco (; 1470s – 17 September 1510), known as Giorgione, was an Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance, who died in his thirties. He is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, ...
s Selbstbildnis in Braunschweig.'' In: ''Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz'' 8, 1957, p. 13–34.
* ''Zwei schlesische Madonnen von Lucas Cranach: eine Erinnerung.'' Kulturwerk Schlesien, Würzburg 1958.
* ''Das Selbstbildnis des Lucas van Leyden
Lucas van Leyden (1494 – 8 August 1533), also named either Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz, was a Dutch painter and printmaker in engraving and woodcut. Lucas van Leyden was among the first Dutch exponents of genre painting and was a very ac ...
im Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig.'' In: ''Festschrift Friedrich Winkler'', Berlin 1959, p. 221–238.
* ''Das Stuttgarter Selbstbildnis von Rembrandt.'' In: ''Pantheon'' 1963, p. 65–100.
* ''Michael Willmann. Die Jakobsleiter.'' In: ''Schlesien'', 1965, p. 193–201.
* ''Zur Genesis des Claudius Civilis-Bildes.'' In: Otto von Simson, Jan Kelch (ed.): ''Neue Beiträge zur Rembrandt-Forschung'', Berlin 1973, p. 12–30, 41–43.
Bibliography
* Fedja Anzelewski: ''Nachruf auf Cornelius Müller Hofstede''. In: ''Kunstgeschichtliche Gesellschaft zu Berlin. Sitzungsberichte'' NF 23, 1974, S. 59–60.External links (in German)
*Müller-Hofstede 1961 with the rediscovered ''Head of Christ'' by Rembrandt
References