Name Hans Kauffmann | ||
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Died March 15, 1983, Bonn, Germany | ||
"Sig de ord du ved" Liva Weel med Hans Kauffmann og Herman D Koppel 1932
Hans Kauffmann (March 30, 1896 in Kiel - March 15, 1983 in Bonn) was a German art historian.
Contents
- Sig de ord du ved Liva Weel med Hans Kauffmann og Herman D Koppel 1932
- Life and work
- Select publications
- References
Life and work
The son of a professor of German philology in Kiel, Kauffmann studied art history at the universities of Munich, Berlin and Kiel, where he obtained his doctorate in 1919 with a thesis on Rembrandt's art. In 1922, he completed his Habilitationsschrift on Albrecht Dürer under Adolph Goldschmidt at the University of Berlin.
For some time, Kauffmann worked at the Gemäldegalerie Berlin under Wilhelm von Bode and in the print room at The Hague, where he was an assistant of Cornelis Hofstede de Groot. In 1924 he worked at the German Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. From 1936 to 1956, he was professor and chair of art history at the University of Cologne. In 1957, he moved to the Free University of Berlin, where he was appointed the first professor of art history after World War II. He retired in 1964.
In 1964, Kauffmann did some research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and in 1966 he was honorary professor at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London. He spent his last years in Bonn.
Apart from the books he wrote, he published many art historical essays in prestigious German art journals, mainly on masterpieces of art.
Among others, Günther Binding and Martin Warnke were his students. His son Georg Kauffmann was also an art historian.