{{Short description|English art historian (1931–2023)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} '''Claus Michael Kauffmann''', FBA (5 February 1931 – 30 June 2023) was an English art historian who was Director of the Courtauld Institute, London, from 1985–95.<ref>[http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/about/history.shtml A History of the Courtauld] The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2013. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130219102043/http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/about/history.shtml Archived here.]</ref> He was succeeded by Eric Fernie. Kauffmann was a Fellow of the British Academy.<ref>[http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/ord.cfm?member=2201 British Academy Fellows Record for: KAUFFMANN, Professor Michael.] British Academy, 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2013. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304024634/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/ord.cfm?member=2201 Archived here.]</ref>
Kauffmann was born on 5 February 1931,<ref>'KAUFFMANN, Prof. C. Michael', Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2012; online edn, November 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U22634, accessed 28 April 2013]</ref> and educated at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School and St Paul's School, London, before matriculating at Merton College, Oxford in 1950, where he read history. After graduation he took up a Junior Research Fellowship at the Warburg Institute, completing his PhD in the History of Art in 1957. He then held posts at the Warburg Institute, Manchester City Art Gallery, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.<ref name="MCreg">{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900–1964|date=1964|publisher=Basil Blackwell|location=Oxford|pages=414–5}}</ref> He was one of the founding trustees on the creation of National Museums Liverpool in 1986.
Michael Kauffmann was a son of Arthur Kauffmann, and married Dorothea Hill in 1954.<ref name="MCreg" /> He died on 30 June 2023, at the age of 92.<ref>[https://courtauld.ac.uk/news-blogs/2023/professor-michael-kaufmann-fba-1931-2023/ Professor Michael Kauffmann FBA (1931-2023)], The Courtauld Institute of Art, 6 July 2023, accessed 8 July 2023</ref>
==Selected publications== *''The Baths of Pozzuoli. A study of the medieval illuminations of Peter of Eboli's poem'', Bruno Cassirer, Oxford, 1959. *''The Legend of St. Ursula. [A survey based on the painting “The Martyrdom of St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins” in the Victoria and Albert Museum and other works. With reproductions.]'', Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1964. *''The Barbizon school'', Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1965. *''Paintings at Apsley House'', Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1965. *''An altar-piece of the Apocalypse from Master Bertram's Workshop in Hamburg'', Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1968. *''Romanesque MSS 1066-1190'', Harvey Miller, London, 1975. *''Paintings, water-colours and miniatures'', Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1978. {{ISBN|0905209109}} *''John Varley: 1778-1842'', Batsford in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1984. {{ISBN|0713434023}} *''Biblical imagery in medieval England 700-1550'', Harvey Miller Publishers, London, 2002. {{ISBN|1872501044}}
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