Meike Hoffmann
{{Short description|German art historian (born 1962)}}
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Meike Hoffmann (born 1962) is a German art historian and provenance researcher.
Life
Hoffmann studied art history, archeology, cultural studies, and library science at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and at the Freie Universität Berlin (Free University Berlin). In 2005, she was awarded a PhD for her dissertation on Die Brücke art movement.Hoffmann, Meike: Leben und Schaffen der Künstlergruppe Brücke 1905 bis 1913. Mit einem kommentierten Werkverzeichnis der Geschäfts- und Ausstellungsgrafik, Berlin 2005.
From 1990 to 1994, Meike Hoffmann was a research assistant at the Berlin gallery Theis and the Berlin Ceramics Museum. From 1992 to 1995, she taught Art History at the Goethe-Institut in Berlin, and from 1995 to 1999, she was a research trainee and curator at the Brücke Museum in Berlin. From 1999 to 2006, she worked as a freelance art historian, writer and curator.
Since November 2006, Meike Hoffmann is in charge of the [http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/khi/forschung/projekte/entartete_kunst/ Forschungsstelle "Entartete Kunst"] (Degenerate Art Research Center) at the Freie Universität Berlin. The Research Center was initiated in 2003 by the Ferdinand-Möller Stiftung, which secured the funding until 2016. Since then, the Research Center is funded by the Federal Government Commission for Culture and the Media.
In 2010, Hoffmann was involved in the identification of the missing sculptures found in the archaeological excavations at the Rotes Rathaus City Hall of Berlin.(In German)Kostbare-Kunstwerke-am-Roten-Rathaus-entdeckt http://www.morgenpost.de/kultur/article1444928/Kostbare-Kunstwerke-am-Roten-Rathaus-entdeckt.html
She designed the first worldwide academic training program in provenance research that she teaches continuously since 2011 at the Free University Berlin.(In German) Deutschlandfunk Kultur: Studium für die Suche nach dem Ursprung, 19.04.2011 http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/thema/1439434
After the ‘Schwabinger Kunstfund’ (‘Schwabing Art Trove’) in 2012, Meike Hoffmann was commissioned to examine classic modern art within the collection of Hildebrand Gurlitt. She participated at the press conference about the Munich art discovery on 5 November 2013 in Augsburg(In German) Nazi-Schatz lagerte ungesichert in Gurlitts Wohnung, Focus vom 5. November 2013 http://www.focus.de/kultur/kunst/tid-34488/ticker-nachlese-zur-kunst-schatz-pk-cornelius-gurlitt-lagerte-den-milliardenschweren-nazi-schatz-ungesichert_aid_1148685.html and became an official member of the Taskforce ‘Schwabinger Kunstfund’ as well as for the follow-up projects of the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste (German Lost Art Foundation) and the Kunstmuseum Bern (Museum of fine Arts Berne).
On 1 March 2017, Meike Hoffmann took over the scientific coordination of the ‘Mosse Art Research Initiative’ (MARI) which is also located at the Freie Universität Berlin. The project is the first public-private partnership in provenance research executed by public German institutions in cooperation with descendants of the victims of National Socialist prosecution.{{Cite news |last=Moynihan |first=Colin |date=2017-03-07 |title=German Foundation to Help Jewish Heirs in Search for Nazi Looted Art |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/arts/design/mosse-heirs-nazi-looted-art-german-foundation.html |access-date=2023-02-17 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |date=2017-03-08 |title=Heirs of Jewish publisher team up with German museums to track down Nazi-looted art |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2017/03/08/heirs-of-jewish-publisher-team-up-with-german-museums-to-track-down-nazi-looted-art |access-date=2023-02-17 |website=The Art Newspaper - International art news and events}}{{Cite web |date=2017-04-21 |title=In Search of Lost Art |url=https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/informationen/wissenschaft/2017/201704/mosse-lost-art.html |access-date=2023-02-17 |website=www.fu-berlin.de |language=en}}
Publications
- Hildebrand Gurlitt and His Dealings with German Museums during the Third Reich, in: Adreas Huyssen/Anson Rabinbach/Avinoam Shalem (Ed.): Nazi-Looted Art and its Legacies, New German Critique, No 130/Feb 2017, p. 35–55.
- Outlawed – The Fate of “Degenerate Art“ after Confiscation from German Museums During the Nazi Regime, in: Modern Masters “Degenerate” Art at The Museum of Fine Arts Berne, Exhibition Catalogue, 2016, p. 103–115.
- Provenance Research on the 1913 Painting “Dünen und Meer” by Ernst Ludiwg Kirchner, in: Modern Masters “Degenerate” Art at The Museum of Fine Arts Berne, Exhibition Catalogue, 2016, p. 117–119.
- A New Challenge for an Old and Almost Forgotten Academic Discipline: Provenance Research Training at the Free University of Berlin, in: "The West" Versus "The East" or The United Europe? The different conceptions of provenance research, documentation and identification of looted cultural assets and the possibilities of international cooperation in Europe and worldwide, ed. by Mecislav Borák, Prag 2014, S. 155-166.
- On the Trail of "Degenerate Art" – Confiscation of Modernist Art conducted by the National Socialists in 1937 with Particular Mention of Szczecin, Wroclaw and Bytom, in: MUZEALNICTWO (Museumskunde), Bd. 53, Warschau November 2012, S. 58-64.
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Category:German art historians
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Category:University of Kiel alumni
Category:Free University of Berlin alumni