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Ursula Hoff (26 December 1909, London, UK – 10 January 2005, Melbourne) – Australian scholar, academic, curator, writer, critic, and lecturer; Deputy Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (1968–1973); London Adviser of the Felton Bequest (1975–83); author of numerous books, catalogues, articles, reviews, and scholarly publications on art. == Early years == Ursula Hoff was born on 26 December 1909 in London to Hans Leopold Hoff, Hamburg-based German Jewish merchant, and his wife, née Thusnelde Margarethe (Tussi) Bulcke, of a German Lutheran upper-middle-class family.〔S. Palmer, ''Centre of the Perifery'', 2008, 13–14〕 Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Hamburg, where Ursula grew up and completed her primary and secondary education. In 1930, Ursula Hoff commenced academic studies spread between the universities of Frankfurt, Cologne, and Munich; later the same year, she commenced studies at the University of Hamburg; among her teachers were Erwin Panofsky, Aby Warburg, Ernst Cassirer, and Fritz Saxl.〔S. Palmer, ''Centre of the Perifery'', 2008, 14–22〕 Upon Adolf Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany and the introduction of anti-Jewish measures in January 1930, Ursula Hoff's father, Leopold Hoff, left immediately for London; Ursula and her mother Tussi followed him shortly in July. Because she was born in England, Ursula was able to take up British citizenship, and due to her excellent English, she was quickly absorbed into British academic and cultural institutions. Over the next several years she worked with the curatorial staff at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford; the British Museum; at the Courtauld Institute of Art.〔S. Palmer, ''Centre of the Perifery'', 2008, 22–29〕 However, existing employment regulations in England barred her, and many other refugees, from permanent full-time positions.〔This is documented, as well as other details of the difficulties of refugees from Nazism in the UK before World War II, in Barbara Falk, Caught in a Snare: Hitler’s Refugee Academics 1933–1949, History Department Monographs no. 25, History Department, University of Melbourne, 1988, pp. 82–109, and specifically p. 89 (re the Foreign Office on the UK as a transit country).〕 She was also able to continue working on a doctoral thesis, ''Rembrandt und England'', which investigated the influence of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn in the eighteenth-century England, primarily through the appointment of Sir Godfrey Kneller to the court of William III of England in 1688. From 1934 to 1935 returned to complete her thesis at the University of Hamburg, where she was awarded a PhD.〔S. Palmer, ''Centre of the Perifery'', 2008, 55–57〕 From 1935 to 1939 Hoff continued living in London and working in a variety of curatorial and research positions at the Royal Academy; National Gallery; and the British Museum; and wrote for the ''Journal of the Warburg Institute'' and the ''Burlington Magazine''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ursula Hoff」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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