| Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector Scholar/Critic/Expert | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| dates | 1898-1984 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| city | Cambridge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| state | MA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| other cities | Cincinnati, OH; | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sex | M | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| history |
Philip Hofer was a collector and former curator and founder, 1938, of Harvard's department of printing and graphic arts. He was secretary of the Fogg Art Museum, a trustee of the American School for Classical Studies in Athens and chairman of the Bernard Berenson Villa I. Tatti Committee in Florence. Hofer's collection had strong fifteenth- and eighteenth-century Italian holdings, included groups as divergent as Chinese block prints and illuminated manuscripts. Hofer's collection included work by Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Baldung Grien, Claude Lorrain, Gilles Corrozet (author) and Hans Lutzelberger after Hans Holbein, the Younger, Albrecht Dürer, Francis Seymour Haden, Hans Holbein the Younger, Charles Knowles, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Arthur Pond and Charles Knapton after Various Artists, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Ugo da Carpi after Giovanni Antonio Pordenone. |
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| decades | 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 |
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| updated | 10/31/2024 13:33:21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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