Meike Hoffmann

Meike Hoffmann
Nationality	Germany
Fields	art historian
Institutions	Free University of Berlin Goethe-Institut
Alma mater	University of Kiel Free University of Berlin

Meike Hoffmann (born 1962) is a German art historian and provenance researcher.

Life

Hoffmann studied art history, classical archeology, folklore and library science at the University of Kiel and at the Free University of Berlin. In 2005 she was promoted to a PhD for her dissertation on Die Brücke art movement.

From 1990 to 1994 she 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. From 1995 to 1999 she was a research trainee and assistant at the Brücke Museum in Berlin, and from 1999 to 2006 she worked as a freelance art historian, writer and curator.

Since November 2006 she has been employed at the Degenerate Art Research Center at the Free University of Berlin. and since 2007 has been working on a new course study for provenance research, which the Free University has offered now since 2011.^[1]

In 2010 she was involved in the identification of the missing sculptures found in the archaeological excavations at the Rotes Rathaus City Hall of Berlin.^[2] Although she claimed in a book published in 2010 that the Nazi art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt never possessed "one single" sculpture from the Nazi-confiscated "Degenerate art" collection,^[3] after the 2012 Nazi loot discovery she was nevertheless commissioned by the German government to research the owner provenances of the works. (Wer nicht in der Lage ist, wissenschaftliche Fachliteratur zu lessen, sollte sie auch nicht heranziehen. In der Böhmer-Publikation ist die Rede von "Bildwerken". Bildwerke ist der kunsthistorische Sammelbegriff für Skulpturen und Plastiken. Davon hat Hildebrand Gurlitt kein einziges Werk aus den Beschlagnahmegut der "Entarteten Kunst" übernommen. Anm. MH)

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