# Michael Kauffmann

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'''Claus Michael Kauffmann''', [FBA](/source/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy) (5 February 1931 – 30 June 2023) was an English art historian who was Director of the [Courtauld Institute](/source/Courtauld_Institute), London, from 1985&ndash;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](/source/Eric_Fernie). Kauffmann was a Fellow of the [British Academy](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Clitheroe_Royal_Grammar_School) and [St Paul's School, London](/source/St_Paul's_School%2C_London), before matriculating at [Merton College, Oxford](/source/Merton_College%2C_Oxford) in 1950, where he read history. After graduation he took up a Junior Research Fellowship at the [Warburg Institute](/source/Warburg_Institute), completing his PhD in the History of Art in 1957. He then held posts at the Warburg Institute, [Manchester City Art Gallery](/source/Manchester_Art_Gallery), and the [Victoria and Albert Museum](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Victoria_%26_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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