Full Name: Burke, Joseph
Gender: male
Date Born: unknown
Date Died: unknown
Home Country/ies: Australia
Subject Area(s): museums (institutions)
Career(s): founders (originators)
Overview
In 1946, with sponsorship from Sir Keith Murdoch, the Herald Chair of Fine Arts was founded at the University of Melbourne. Burke was its first appointee field of expertise was English 18th-century art. Burke collected a significant group of scholars around him, including Bernard Smith, the first Australian art historian, and Franz Philipp, a German Jewish refugee from Vienna and Ursula Hoff, who held a part-time position as a visiting lecturer in this new department.
Sources
Anderson, Jaynie. “Ursula Hoff: Intellectual who left her imprint.” The Australian January 20, 2005. p. 12