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historians of netherlandish art NEWSLETTER AND REVIEW OF BOOKS Dedicated to the Study of Netherlandish, German and Franco-Flemish Art and Architecture, 1350-1750 Vol. 32, No. 2 November 2015 Jheronimus Bosch, Saint Christopher, 1490 – 1505. Oil on panel, 123.5 x 83.0 x 5.2 cm. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Exhibited at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, October 10, 2015 – January 17, 2016. Photo: Studio Tromp, Rotterdam. HNA Newsletter, Vol. 23, No. 2, November 2006 1 historians of netherlandish art 23 S. Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904 Telephone: (732) 937-8394 E-Mail: [email protected] www.hnanews.org Historians of Netherlandish Art Offi cers President – Amy Golahny (2013-2017) Lycoming College Williamsport PA 17701 Vice-President – Paul Crenshaw (2013-2017) Providence College Department of Art History 1 Cummingham Square Providence RI 02918-0001 Treasurer – Dawn Odell Lewis and Clark College 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road Portland OR 97219-7899 European Treasurer and Liaison - Fiona Healy Seminarstrasse 7 D-55127 Mainz Germany Contents Board Members President's Message .............................................................. 1 Lloyd DeWitt (2012-2016) Stephanie Dickey (2013-2017) Obituaries ............................................................................... 1 Martha Hollander (2012-2016) HNA News ............................................................................4 Walter Melion (2014-2018) Personalia ............................................................................... 5 Gero Seelig (2014-2018) Exhibitions ............................................................................ 5 Angela Vanhaelen (2014-2018) Yao-Fen You (2013-2016) Exhibition Reviews ............................................................. 10 Museum News .................................................................... 12 Scholarly Activities Newsletter & Membership Secretary Conferences .......................................................................... 15 Kristin Lohse Belkin Past Conferences ................................................................ 18 23 South Adelaide Avenue Highland Park, New Jersey 08904 Layout by Marty Perzan - Network Typesetting, Inc. HNA Review of Books HNA Newsletter 16th Century .........................................................................26 ISSN 1067-4284 17th-Century Flemish .......................................................... 35 17th-Century Dutch ..............................................................41 Germany ............................................................................... 46 New Titles ........................................................................... 48 Dissertations ....................................................................... 50 2 HNA Newsletter, Vol. 23, No. 2, November 2006 historians of netherlandish art NEWSLETTER From the President In Memoriam Dear colleagues, This fall there is much to see and much to learn thanks Justus Müller Hofstede to the many activities of our members, including outstanding (1929-2015) exhibitions currently on view in Boston (Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer) and Philadelphia (The Wrath of the Gods: Masterpieces by Rubens, Michelangelo and Titian). News of conferences, exhibitions, publications and dissertations around the world follows in this newsletter, and I am amazed and gratifi ed at the achievements of our membership. Be sure to send us news of your own proj- ects (to: [email protected]) so we can report them here in future issues. Many thanks to our Administrator, Kristin Belkin, for keeping track of it all! In November we will be voting on three new members of the HNA Board and selecting a new Treasurer. The slate of can- didates will be sent through the listserve. We are, as ever, ap- preciative of the time and effort of our board, and thank Martha Hollander, Yao-Fen You, and Lloyd DeWitt, who are rotating off the board, for their contribution over the past four years, and Dawn Odell, our treasurer, who will be taking a sabbatical. We look forward to seeing you at the College Art Associa- tion Annual Conference in Washington February 3-6, where HNA will sponsor a session and host a reception, and at the Renaissance Society of America Conference in Boston, March 31-April 2, where HNA and the Italian Art Society are co-spon- soring two sessions and co-hosting a reception. For both, dates and places will be announced through the listserve. The next HNA conference will take place in Ghent in 2018, with Koen Jonckheere and Max Maartens serving as principle organizers. It is scheduled for May 24-26, at Het Pand, the ven- erable conference center of the University of Ghent, and will include Bruges as well. More information will follow as plans progress. Justus Müller Hofstede, Professor emeritus at the Universi- And thank you all for your continuing support, and espe- ty of Bonn, died on April 27, 2015, in his hometown. His death cially keeping current with dues, which are essential to fund not only ended a long and full life but with it Netherlandish our organization and its activities, including our open access art history has lost one of its most distinguished personalities journal, JHNA. Please consider contributing at an additional who has moulded art historical research – specifi cally on Peter level, watch the web for news – and check out our Facebook Paul Rubens – since the 1960s. Beyond that, Müller Hofstede page! And don’t forget to vote in the upcoming board election! changed the landscape of German higher education when he founded the still only chair dedicated to Netherlandish art his- With all good wishes, tory at the Kunsthistorisches Institut of the University of Bonn, Amy Golahny accompanying generations of students on their way. email: [email protected] Born on May 9, 1929, in Berlin, Müller Hofstede’s way to art history seems to have been preordained: his father Corne- lius Müller Hofstede was director of the museums in Braun- schweig and Breslau (now Wroclaw in Poland), later also of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, and on the paternal side he was related to Cornelis Hofstede de Groot. Yet he initially studied HNA Newsletter, Vol. 32, No. 2, November 2015 1 theology in Berlin only to switch to art history in Heidelberg resentation of reality do not constitute opposites but comple- in 1949, eventually moving to Freiburg where his teacher was menting and, in their function, ultimately self-ascertaining Kurt Bauch who became a model for him. He received his principles. The fruitfulness of such iconological interpretation Ph.D. in 1959 with a dissertation on Otto van Veen. This was is demonstrated by his contribution on the allegory of sight in followed by a three-year postdoc at the Zentralinstitut für the same volume. Kunstgeschichte in Munich. During a research stipend from the Already in his earliest publications, starting in 1961, Müller Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft from 1962 to 1967, Mül- Hofstede dealt with drawings and oil sketches. As embodiment ler Hofstede traveled extensively to Italy, The Netherlands, of spontaneity and individuality, he viewed them as part of a Belgium, France, Spain, England and even St. Petersburg (then creative process in which painters assured themselves of their Leningrad) and Moscow, to work in libraries and archives but idea and its form of expression which they then refi ned. The also to study works in the original. Many of his friendships and special interest in a theoretical as well as practical development colleagual relationships formed during these years resulted in explains his repeated occupation with the early work of an art- close and long-lasting scholarly exchange. In December 1967 ist. This search for the perfect form, the assurance of one’s artis- Müller Hofstede received his habilitation at the Rheinische tic goals at the beginning of a career, the striving for one’s place Friedrich Wilhelms Universität in Bonn, advancing to Academ- in the social fabric – all that corresponds in astonishing ways ic Council and Professor of Art History in 1970. He remained to his extraordinary interest in his students, many of whom he in Bonn until his retirement in 1994, even declining a call to supported intensely and accompanied on their way. He was in Berlin in 1982. This loyalty and attachment were not limited to the truest sense of the word a “Doktorvater.” Thus it comes as Müller Hofstede’s scholarly world but extended to his personal no surprise that many of his students remained closely con- life – to people who were close to him but also to his values nected to him beyond their university years. and commitments, many of which derived from his studies and research. It is not incidental that his occupation with Peter Paul Müller Hofstede’s manifold interests resulted in a broad Rubens became the central theme of his life. thematic spectrum that included the early Italian Renaissance, Mannerism and even classical modern art, as refl ected in the This becomes especially apparent in the 1992 article about multitude of dissertation topics which he supervised. It stands Rubens’s self-portraits in which he deals with the intellectual to reason that many who experienced him as teacher found world of this extraordinary artistic personality, revealing the their way into museum work. Numerous excursions to muse- multi-layered levels of meaning of these self-representations. ums at home and abroad taught us – and I count myself here As always, he saw the