Professor Michael Kauffmann FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1987
- Year of birth
- 1931
- Year of death
- 2023
- Subjects
- Art history
- Sections
- History of Art and Music
Summary
Prof. C.Michael Kauffmann (FBA 1987. Emeritus) Born in Frankfurt in 1931, migrated to Burnley, Lancashire, in 1938. Educated at Clitheroe Grammar School (1940-43), St Paul's School, Berks, and then London (1943-48), Merton College, Oxford (Postmaster) (1950-53), BA Modern History. Warburg Institute, University of London, (1953-57), Junior Research Fellow. Ph.D. History of Art, 1957. Career: Assistant, Warburg Institute Photographic Collection, 1957-58; Manchester City Art Gallery, Asst. Keeper, 1958-60; Victoria and Albert Museum, Dept. of Prints & Drawings and Paintings, Asst. Keeper, 1960-75, Keeper 1975-85. Asst. to the Director, 1963-66. Lecturer, University of Chicago, Spring semester 1969. Director Courtauld Institue of Art and Professor of History of Art, University of London, 1985-95. Member of various committees including that of the NACF (later Art Fund), 1987-2005.
Last post
Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and formerly Director of the Courtauld Institute, University of London
Past appointments
Courtauld Institute of Art University of London Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and formerly Director of the Courtauld Institute, University of London
1995 -
Courtauld Institute of Art University of London Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and formerly Director of the Courtauld Institute, University of London
1995 -
Courtauld Institute of Art University of London Director
1985 - 1995
Courtauld Institute of Art University of London Director
1985 - 1995
Publications
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Professor Tina K. Ramnarine FBA
Anthropology of music; global and interdisciplinary perspectives on musical performance; music in colonial histories and postcolonial creativities; arts responses to contemporary global challenges
Professor Susanne Küchler FBA
The anthropology of material aesthetics, mathematics and memory; The nature of innovation and the cognitive work of images, taking insights from ethnographic research in Oceania to the laboratory context of materials science
Professor Julian Johnson FBA
Music history and aesthetics, 1800 to the present; modernity and modernism; Mahler, Debussy, Second Viennese School; music and philosophy
