Record ID:
35200144 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50031281
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1909
  • London, England
Death:
  • 2005
  • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Associated with:
  • Melbourne, Victoria
Occupations:
  • art historian, writer, lecturer, academic
Used for:
  • Hoff, Ursula
Notes:
  • Ursula Hoff was born in England in 1909. She grew up in Germany, leaving with her family at the 1930s; but completed her Phd. at the University of Hamburg between 1934 to 1935. During her time in England she worked for the Royal Academy, the National Gallery and the British Museum; as well as writing for several journals. In 1939 she arrived in Australia to take up a position at the University of Melbourne and was invited to deliver a series of lectures at the National Gallery of Victoria. In 1943 she was appointed the National Gallery of Victoria's Assistant Keeper of Prints and Drawings, becoming the first woman and first tertiary qualified art historian to work within a state gallery in Australia. In 1975 during her tenure as the London Advisor to the Felton Bequest she secured works by Goya, Canaletto, Renoir and others, as well as Indian Mughul miniatures, for the National Gallery of Victoria. After retiring as Advisor of the Felton Bequest, Ursula Hoff returned to Australia in 1984. She continued to lecture at the University of Melbourne and wrote monographs on artists like Arthur Boyd, essays on exhibitions and articles for Australian art journals. Ursula Hoff died in Heidelberg, Victoria in 2005.
  • Ursula Hoff was one of the earliest women scholars to pursue a rewarding intellectual career in art history
  • Her Charles I, patron of artists, 1942.
  • LC/NAF 16 June 2016 hdg. (Hoff, Ursula)
  • The National Gallery of Victoria, 1973 title page (Ursula Hoff)
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)89178
  • (VSL)421073
  • abv00205486
  • 000000201121
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda ANL Uk VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc