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Hussey, Christopher

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Full Name: Hussey, Christopher

Other Names:

  • Christopher Edward Clive Hussey

Gender: male

Date Born: 1899

Date Died: 1970

Place Born: London, Greater London, England, UK

Place Died: Scotney Castle, Kent, England, UK

Home Country/ies: United Kingdom

Subject Area(s): architecture (object genre), British (modern), and sculpture (visual works)

Career(s): art critics and publishers


Overview

Editor, Country Life magazine, 1933-1940; architectural historian of British country homes. Hussey’s father was Major William Clive Hussey of the Royal Engineers and his mother Mary Ann Herbert. His grandfather was Edward Hussey, from whom Hussey inherited the family estate, Scotney castle, at Lamberhust, Kent. He attended Eaton before serving in World War I as second lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. After the war, a family friend, H. Avray Tipping, the principal architectural advisory to Country Life, urged him to join the editorial staff. He attended Christ Church, Oxford University between 1919-21, gaining a degree in modern European history. His first architectural article was published in Country Life, a magazine he would be associated with his entire life, on his own estate, in 1920. In 1927 he published a book on landscape esthetic, called The Picturesque. He was named architectural advisor to Country Life in 1930. That year published an article on Blickling Hall, Norfolk, the estate of Philip Kerr, eleventh marquess of Lothian. He was named editor of Country Life in 1933. Lothian by this time was won over to state support of country homes; his famous 1934 speech at the National Trust’s annual meeting resulted in the National Trust’s sponsorship of country houses, an idea Hussey had lobbied for for years. In 1936 he married Elizabeth Maud Smiley. Hussey was instrumental in encouraging the early research of a secretary of the magazine staff, Dorothy Stroud to garden history and directing her to John Newenham Summerson, where she became an assistant at the John Soane Museum. During his years at the magazine, his focused articles on the architectural heritage of England cause Lord Runciman to remark that Hussey was “the keeper of the architectural conscience of the nation” (Crook). He left Country Life in 1940, remaining architectural advisor until 1964. As part of the memorial to Edward Luytens, Hussey published a biography of the architect in 1950. In 1951 published a survey book to encourage appreciation of Britain’s heritage by the general public, English Country Houses Opened to the Public. The first of his series of Georgian architecture, English Country Houses: Early Georgian 1715-1766 appeared in 1955. It was quickly followed by Mid-Georgian in 1956 and Late Georgian in 1958. This era of architecture was one he shared with his friend, Summerson, who also published on the topic. His final book, English Gardens and Landscapes, 1700-1750 appeared in 1967 along with a reprint of his 1927 Picturesque.The Picturesque raised to the English-reading public the notion of perhaps Britain’s most important contribution to architecture: the integrated and planned landscape. Hussey’s book looked at the esthetic and how is was practiced and dissemination in 17th- and 18th-century garden design. As editor of Country Life, he commissioned photographers to photograph the estates covered in the magazine; today the archives of Country Life comprise one of the most important collections aristocratic British architecture. His articles fostered an interest in historic preservation, begun in the 1920s when important works of architecture were being demolished.


Selected Bibliography

[complete bibliography:] Crook, J. Mordaunt. “Christopher Hussey: A Bibliographical Tribute.” Architectural History 13 (1970): 5-29; and Smith, H. Clifford. Buckingham Palace, its Furniture, Decoration & History. London: Country Life, 1931; English Country Houses. volume 1: Early Georgian, 1715-1760, volume 2: Mid Georgian, 1760-1800, volume 3: Late Georgian, 1800-1840. London: Country Life, 1955, 1956, 1958; English Country Houses Open to the Public. London: Country Life, 1951; The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens. London: Country Life, 1950; The Picturesque: Studies in a Point of View. London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1927.


Sources

Cornforth, John. “Christopher Hussey and Modern Architecture, [part 1: Continuity and Progress. Country Life 170 (October 22, 1981): 1366-1368; Cornforth, John. “Christopher Hussey and Modern Architecture, [part 2]: Qualities of Generalship. Country Life 170 (October 29, 1981): 1468-70; Cornforth, John. “The Husseys and the Picturesque.” (part 1) Country Life 165 (May 10, 1979): 1438-1441; “The Husseys and the Picturesque.” (part 2). Country Life 165 (May 17, 1979): 1522-1525; O. L, J. S., and Edwards, Ralph. “Christopher Hussey Influence on Preservation. The Times (London) March 25, 1970, p. 14; [obituaries:] “Mr C. Hussey Country Houses Historian.” The Times (London) March 21, 1970, p. 10; Hellyer, Arthur. “Christopher Hussey. C.B.E. 1899-1970.” Garden History Society Newsletter 14 (September 1971): 19-21; Cornforth, John. “Chirstopher Hussey: Architectural Advisor to Country Life.” Country Life 142 (March 26, 1970):767, and (April 2, 1970) and (April 9, 1970): ; “1500 Articles.” Country Life 148 (September 24 1970): 761; Pevsner, Nikolaus. “Chirstopher Hussey.” Architectural Review 148 (August 1970): 130; Crook,J. Mordaunt. “Christopher Hussey.” Royal Institute of British Architects Journal 77 (June1970): A63.




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Editor, Country Life magazine, 1933-1940; architectural historian of British country homes. Hussey’s father was Major William Clive Hussey of the Royal Engineers and his mother Mary Ann Herbert. His grandfather was Edward Hussey, from who

Hutchinson, Susan A.

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Full Name: Hutchinson, Susan A.

Gender: female

Date Born: unknown

Date Died: 1945

Place Born: Brooklyn, Windham, CT, USA

Place Died: Hamden, new Haven, CT, USA

Home Country/ies: United States

Subject Area(s): prints (visual works)

Career(s): librarians


Overview

Brooklyn Museum’s first keeper of prints (and Librarian), 1899 to 1934. Hutchinson studied library science, receiving her degree from Pratt Institute of Library Science. She joined Blackstone Memorial Library in Branford, CT, rising through the ranks to acting librarian. In 1900 she joined the library of the Brooklyn Museum. As librarian, she began a print collection as part of that division’s holdings. She was a founding member of the Brooklyn Society of Etchers, holding meetings in the Museum. Her interest was primarily in the production of prints and as such, installed a lithography press in the museum for artists to use free of charge. At the same time, she mounted print exhibitions in the Museum which also traveled throughout the country. During her final years as “curator” of prints, she edited the American section of the Prints of the Year publication between 1930 and 1934. She retired in 1934 and her collections of photographs, prints and drawings were split into separate departments in the Museum, Carl O. Schniewind succeeding her in the print division and Herman DeWitter in the photographs division.



Sources

“Brooklyn Museum Department of Prints and Drawings.” http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/departments/prints-drawings-and-photographs/; [obituary:] “Susan Hutchinson, Retired Librarian, Curator of Prints in Brooklyn Museum for 35 years Dies.” New York Times September 29, 1945, p. 15




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Brooklyn Museum’s first keeper of prints( and Librarian), 1899 to 1934. Hutchinson studied library science, receiving her degree from Pratt Institute of Library Science. She joined Blackstone Memorial Library in Branford, CT, rising through the ra

Hutchison, Sidney C.

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Full Name: Hutchison, Sidney C.

Other Names:

  • Sidney Charles Hutchison

Gender: male

Date Born: 1912

Date Died: 2000

Place Born: St. Pancras, Camden, London, England, UK

Place Died: Enfield, Greater London, England, UK

Home Country/ies: United Kingdom


Overview

Historian of the (British) Royal Academy of Art. Hutchison was the son of Henry Hutchison, a carpenter, and Augusta Rose Timmons (Hutchison). His mother died in childbirth and Hutchison was raised by his grandparents and aunts. He won a scholarship to Holloway but quit in 1929 to work at the Royal Academy of Arts. At the Academy, he learned how to mount and document the increasing number of exhibitions the institution was launching at the Burlington House under the major British art historians. Among these were “Italian Art, 1200-1900” of 1930, “French Art, 1200-1900” in 1932 (curated by W. G. Constable, and Trenchard Cox) and the “Chinese Art” exhibition of 1935-1936 under Francis St. George Spendlove (b. 1897). An avid keyboardist his whole life, he was senior organist at St. Matthew’s Church, Westminster, between 1933-1937. Hutchison married Nancy Arnold Brindley (1911/12-1985) in 1937. Sensing a need to supplement his formal training in art, Hutchison began art history classes at London University. There he studied under some of the great expatriate art historians the University harbored from Nazi Germany. During World War II, Hutchison volunteered for the Royal Navy and served throughout the war, including the D-Day invasion at Normandy, rising to the rank of lieutenant-commander. After the war, Hutchison returned to the Academy. In 1949 he was appointed the Academy’s librarian and in 1955 was named secretary of loan exhibitions. Hutchison soon became the de facto historian of the Academy. In 1956 he published The Homes of the Royal Academy. The following year he began lecturing out of the Extramural Department of the University of London (until 1968). His History of the Royal Academy, 1768-1968 appeared in 1968. The same year Hutchison was named secretary to the academy (succeeded Humphrey Brooke). During his tenure, the Academy mounted the great Turner exhibition in 1974, another on Pompeii in 1977, and “The Horses of San Marco” of 1981-82. He retired as Secretary in 1982 and died at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield.Hutchison’s reputation is principally as an administrator. It was Hutchison, who, in 1977 launched the program of subscription support which brought the Royal Academy back to financial solvency. However, his scholarly articles included those for the Walpole Society Journal, Apollo, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and Dictionary of National Biography.


Selected Bibliography

The History of the Royal Academy 1768-1968. London, Chapman & Hall, 1968; The Royal Academy Schools, 1768-1830. Glasgow, 1962; The Homes of the Royal Academy. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1956; and Reynolds, Graham. Royal Academy of Arts Bicentenary Exhibition 1768-1968. 2 vols. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1968.


Sources

[obituaries:] Mullaly,Terence. “Sidney Hutchison: A carpenter’s Son whose Love of Art Led to Half a Century of Outstanding Work for the Royal Academy.” The Guardian (London) May 13, 2000, p. 22; Hayes, Colin. “Sidney Hutchison.” The Independent (London), May 11, 2000, p. 6.




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Historian of the (British) Royal Academy of Art. Hutchison was the son of Henry Hutchison, a carpenter, and Augusta Rose Timmons (Hutchison). His mother died in childbirth and Hutchison was raised by his grandparents and aunts. He won a scholarshi

Huth, Hans

Full Name: Huth, Hans

Gender: male

Date Born: 1892

Date Died: 1977

Place Born: Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Place Died: Carmel, CA, USA

Home Country/ies: Germany

Subject Area(s): decorative arts (discipline) and furniture

Career(s): curators


Overview

Art Institute of Chicago curator, 1944-1963, and furniture specialist. Huth’s parents were Louis Huth (1854-1925), a businessman, and Rosa Hirschfeld (1863-1921). He attended the Reform-Realgymnasium in Naumburg, Germany, before pursuing his college career beginning in 1912. Huth studied art history, archaeology, and philosophy at the Universities at Halle under Wilhelm Waetzoldt and Vienna under Max Dvořák, and Julius Alwin von Schlosser. His studies were interrupted by service in World War I as an artillery officer (Lieutenant); both of his older brothers were killed in war action. In 1918 he returned to the University in Berlin, completing his graduate degree in art history under Adolph Goldschmidt. Huth formed part of a group of graduate students in art history at the University in Berlin, whose numbers included Alexander Dorner, Eberhard Schenk zu Schweinsberg, Erwin Panofsky, and Ida Ledermann. His dissertation, accepted for his Ph.D. in 1922, was on the topic of artistic cooperation in the late Gothic art of Germany. After working as a volunteer at the Bavarian National Museum, he joined the staff of the Royal Palace and Gardens of the Prussian Museums consortium in Berlin in 1925. He married Marta Baumann (b. 1896), an artist and photographer the following year. Huth worked on museum inventories and the gardens as his principal curatorial duties. He added the duties of private librarian for the Hohenzollern family in 1933. Huth’s Jewish parentage (he himself was a declared protestant) forced him out of Nazi Germany in 1937. He first went to France, again acting as librarian for the private collection of the philanthropist James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959) in Versailles. In 1939, he fled again, now to the United States as an exchange professor at Yale University. His wife followed the following year. Through the auspices of NYU art historian Walter W. S. Cook and the art collector Arthur Sachs (1880-1975), he was able to remain in the U.S., taking over for the ailing Georg Swarzenski and his museum course at New York University. He then took a position as advisor for the Historic branch of the National Parks Service, 1939 to 1944, paid by after 1942 by the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation. His assignment was the White House, assembling exhibits on the silver of President James Monroe and presidential china ware. In 1944 he joined the Art Institute of Chicago as an associate curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture. He became a citizen in 1945. Huth researched the catalog for the painting collection. In 1955 he became research curator at the Institute and in 1958 curator of Decorative Arts. His research on the history of nature conservation in the United States, begun at the Parks Service, appeared as a book in 1957. He retired in 1963, settling in Carmel, CA, teaching the museum course for the University of California, Los Angeles between 1966 and 1969.


Selected Bibliography

[bibliography:] Himmelheber, Georg. Hans Huth, 1892-1977. Munich: privately printed, 1977, pp. 5-16; [dissertation:] Das Zusammenwirken von Maler und Bildhauer an den plastischen Arbeiten der Spätgotik in Deutschland (1380-1520). Berlin, 1922; Künstler und Werkstatt der Spätgotik. Augsburg: Dr. Filser Verlag, 1923; Observations Concerning the Conservation of Monuments in Europe and America. Washington, DC: U. S. Park Service, 1940; “The American and Nature.” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 13, no. 1/2 (1950): 101-149; Nature and the American: Three Centuries of Changing Attitudes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957; Lacquer of the West: the History of a Craft and an Industry, 1550-1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971.


Sources

Himmelheber, Georg. Hans Huth, 1892-1977. Munich: privately printed, 1977, pp. 1-4; Wendland, Ulrike. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich: Saur, 1999, vol. 1, pp. 327-332.




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Art Institute of Chicago curator, 1944-1963, and furniture specialist. Huth’s parents were Louis Huth (1854-1925), a businessman, and Rosa Hirschfeld (1863-1921). He attended the Reform-Realgymnasium in Naumburg, Germany, before pursuing his colle

Hutter, Heribert

Full Name: Hutter, Heribert

Other Names:

  • Heribert Hutter

Gender: male

Date Born: 21 February 1926

Date Died: 19 November 2012

Place Died: Vienna, Vienna state, Austria

Home Country/ies: Austria

Subject Area(s): museums (institutions)

Career(s): directors (administrators) and museum directors


Overview

Director, Vienna Academy of Fine Art Gallery. He married the medievalist art historian Irmgard Hutter.


Selected Bibliography

and Lhotsky, Wanda. Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld: Römisches Porträtbuch, im Kupferstichkabinett der Akademie d. Bildenden Künste in Wien. Vienna: Akad. d. Bildenden Künste, 1973; and Poch-Kalous, Margarethe. Gemäldegalerie. Die Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien. Vienna: Rosenbaum,1968; and Cerny, Walter. Die Mitglieder der Wiener Akademie: ein geschichtl. Abriss auf Grund des Quellenmaterials des Akademiearchivs von 1751 bis 1870. Vienna: Archiv d. Akad. d. Bildenden Künste in Wien, 1978; and Foster, J. R. Art Nouveau. New York: Crown, 1967; Francesco Guardi in der Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien. Vienna: Rosenbaum,1967; and Hutter, Irmgard. Konfrontationen. Stuttgart: C. Belser, 1971; Lucas Cranach der ältere in der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien. Vienna: Rosenbaum, 1972; Peter Paul Rubens in der Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien. Vienna: Akad. d. Bildenden Künste in Wien, 1977; and Mairinger, Franz, and Halbgebauer, Peter. Untersuchungen von Kunstwerken mit sichtbaren und unsichtbaren Strahlen. Vienna: Inst. f. Farbenlehre u. Farbenchemie an d. Akad. d. Bildenden Künste in Wien, 1977; and Klauner, Friderike. Original, Kopie, Replik, Paraphrase. Vienna: Akademie der Bildenden Künste, 1980; and Kusternig, Andreas, and Popelka, Liselotte, and Sebr, Oskar. Schlachten, Schlachten, Schlachten: eine Ausstellung der Gemäldegalerie mit dem Institut für Bildnerische Erziehung. Vienna: Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien, 1984; and Janu, Isolde. Schüler in der Gemäldegalerie: Beiträge. Vienna: Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der Bildenden Künste, 1981.





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Director, Vienna Academy of Fine Art Gallery. He married the medievalist art historian Irmgard Hutter.

Hutter, Irmgard

Full Name: Hutter, Irmgard

Other Names:

  • Irmgard Hutter

Gender: female

Date Born: unknown

Date Died: unknown

Home Country/ies: Germany

Subject Area(s): Byzantine (culture or style), Christianity, and Medieval (European)

Institution(s): Universität Wien


Overview

Medievalist of the early Christian/Byzantine era. Married to the art museum director Heribert Hutter.


Selected Bibliography

edited with Ihor Sevcenko. Aetos: Studies in Honour of Cyril Mango. Stuttgart: B.G. Teubner, 1998; Byzanz und der Westen : Studien zur Kunst des europäischen Mittelalters. Vienna: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1984; edited, and Demus, Otto. Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1977-; and Hutter, Heribert. Konfrontationen. Stuttgart: C. Belser, 1971; and Holländer, H ans. Kunst des Frühen Mittelalters. Stuttgart: Belser, 1987; and Schuchhardt,Walter-Herwig, and Heintze, Helga von. Griechische und römische Antike. Stuttgart: Belser, 1987; Frühchristliche Kunst, byzantinische Kunst. [English] Early Christian and Byzantine Art. New York: Universe Books, 1971; and Zarnecki, George, and Deuchler, Florens. Romanik, Gotik, Byzanz. Stuttgart: Belser, 1986.




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Medievalist of the early Christian/Byzantine era. Married to the art museum director Heribert Hutter.

Hüttinger, Eduard

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Full Name: Hüttinger, Eduard

Gender: male

Date Born: 1926

Date Died: 1998

Place Born: Winterthur, Zürich, Switzerland

Home Country/ies: Switzerland


Overview

Director of the Kunsthistorischen Institut at the University of Bern. Hüttinger received his Ph.D. in 1952 and his habilitation in 1963, both from the University of Zürich. Between 1955-1965 he was conservator and director of exhibitions at the Kunsthaus in Zürich. He joined the faculty of the University of Heidelberg in 1966 as professor of art history and remained until 1969. That year he was appointed director of the Kunsthistorischen Institut at the University of Bern. Hüttinger’s specialty was Italian and Dutch renaissance art, specifically reception theory and the history of art history. As a museum director he was called upon to publish in a wide variety of areas, including modern art. He published two works on the Swiss sculpture Max Bill.


Selected Bibliography

and Boehm, Gottfried. Porträts und Profile: zur Geschichte der Kunstgeschichte. St. Gallen: Erker, 1992.


Sources

Eduard Hüttinger, 1926-1998: Gedenkfeier im Kunsthaus Zürich: 29. August 1998. Zürich: Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, 1998; Boehm, Gottfried. “Hermeneutische Gelassenheit.” Porträts und Profile: zur Geschichte der Kunstgeschichte. St. Gallen: Erker, 1992, pp. 11-19.




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Director of the Kunsthistorischen Institut at the University of Bern. Hüttinger received his Ph.D. in 1952 and his habilitation in 1963, both from the University of Zürich. Between 1955-1965 he was conservator and director of exhibitions

Hutton, Edward

Full Name: Hutton, Edward

Gender: male

Date Born: unknown

Date Died: 1969

Place Died: London, Greater London, England, UK

Home Country/ies: United Kingdom

Subject Area(s): Italian (culture or style), Italian Renaissance-Baroque styles, and Renaissance

Career(s): authors and essayists


Overview

Travel writer and art historian of the Italian renaissance era. His first articles on art history appeared while he was making a study of Italy among the British expatriate scholars studying the Italian renaissance, Charles Fairfax Murray, Frederick Mason Perkins, and R. Langton Douglas. In 1898 he married. He is buried in Buckfast abbey.



Sources

Rhodes, Dennis E. “Edward Hutton.” Burlington Magazine 112 (January 1970): 51-52.




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Travel writer and art historian of the Italian renaissance era. His first articles on art history appeared while he was making a study of Italy among the British expatriate scholars studying the Italian renaissance, Charles Fair

Hübner, Paul

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Full Name: Hübner, Paul

Other Names:

  • Paul Gustav Hübner

Gender: male

Date Born: 1888

Date Died: unknown

Home Country/ies: Germany


Overview

In 1930 Hübner hired the young Ernst Gall as his assistant in the government office of castles and gardens in Berlin (Verwaltung der Staatlichen Schlösser und Gärten in Berlin).


Selected Bibliography

Le statue di Roma; Grundlagen für eine Geschichte der antiken Monumente in der Renaissance. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1912; and Homburger, Otto, assisted, Goldschmidt, Adolph. Die Elfenbeinskulpturen aus der Zeit der Karolingischen und Sächsischen Kaiser, VIII.-XI. Jahrhundert. 2 vols. Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1914-1916.


Sources

Fork, Christiane. “Gall, Ernst.” Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 107-108/




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In 1930 Hübner hired the young Ernst Gall as his assistant in the government office of castles and gardens in Berlin (Verwaltung der Staatlichen Schlösser und Gärten in Berlin).

Hudig, Ferrand Whaley

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Full Name: Hudig, Ferrand Whaley

Gender: male

Date Born: 1883

Date Died: 1937

Place Born: Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Place Died: Aerdenhout, North Holland, Netherlands

Home Country/ies: Netherlands

Subject Area(s): decorative art (art genre)

Career(s): curators


Overview

Professor of art history and decorative arts museum curator. Hudig was born in Rotterdam where his father and his brother were members of the shipping firm Hudig and Veder. The young Hudig apprenticed at the firm of Ryley and Company in London. Between 1907 and 1913 he served the Hudig and Veder firm in Amsterdam as proxy holder. Fascinated by art and literature, he left the firm at age 30 to study art history in Berlin. For two years he studied under Adolph Goldschmidt, August Grisebach, and Georg Loeschcke. In 1915 he moved to Zürich, and, following his Maturitätsprüfung, entered the graduate program. Even before graduation in 1918, he worked as an assistant director under Marinus van Notten at the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst in Amsterdam (National Museum for History and Art), a decorative arts, sculpture and architecture museum, part of the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum. Hudig was obliged to specialize in decorative arts, including ceramics and glass as part of his job. In 1922 Hudig’s guide to the collection of English Pottery and China appeared. In addition to his museum duties he still had to round off his studies in Zürich. In 1923 he obtained his doctoral degree from Zürich University with a dissertation on glass, Das Glas, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Sammlung im Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst. In 1924, the Nederlandsch Museum lost its independence and became a department of the Rijksmuseum, which then was under the direction of F. Schmidt-Degener. This change necessitated the dismissal of Van Notten and Hudig was charged with the reorganization of the newly created department. In addition to his duties at the Rijksmuseum, Hudig obtained a teaching position at Amsterdam University, lecturing on Italian art. In his inaugural public lecture (October 17, 1924), Kunstgeschiedenis als een deel der beschavingsgeschiedenis, he argued for art history as a part of cultural history. In 1926 he wrote an essay on Dutch glass engravers for Wilfred Buckley’s 1926 European Glass: a Brief Outline of the History of Glass Making. Hudig served as the co-editor of Oud Holland, and he was an active member of cultural and antiquarian organizations. In 1928 he was appointed professor extraordinarius of the art history of the middle ages and the new era at Amsterdam University. He left the Rijksmuseum, eager to fully dedicate himself to his university career. In his inaugural lecture, Frederik Hendrik en de kunst van zijn tijd, he dealt with the arts under the reign of stadhouder Frederik Hendrik of Orange (1625-1647). In 1929 he published his comprehensive handbook on Delftware Faience. He fully dedicated himself to building up the institute, enjoying teaching and the yearly excursions. Among his students were Hans L. C. Jaffé and Karel G. Boon. Hudig died after a short illness in the age of 53. His successor at Amsterdam University was I. Q. van Regteren Altena. In both his inaugural lectures (1924, 1928) at Amsterdam University, Hudig expressed his conviction that art is part of a broader historical and philosophical context.


Selected Bibliography

[complete bibliography:] Hintzen, J. D. “Ferrand Whaley Hudig (Rotterdam 25 Juni 1883-Aerdenhout 31 Maart 1937) in Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde te Leiden 1937-1938 (1938): 158-160; [dissertation] Das Glas, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Sammlung im Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst. Zürich, 1925, also published under the same title, Vienna: s.n., 1925; “Diamond Engraving.” in Buckley, Wilfred. European Glass, a Brief Outline of the History of Glass Making. London: Ernest Benn ltd, 1926, pp. xiv-xxxiv; Frederik Hendrik en de kunst van zijn tijd. Rede uitgesproken by de aanvaarding van het ambt van buitengewoon hoogleeraar in de kunstgeschiedenis der middeleeuwen en van den nieuweren tijd aan de universiteit van Amsterdam op 1 October 1928. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1929; Delfter Fayence: Ein Handbuch für Sammler und Liebhaber. Berlin: R. C. Schmidt & Co, 1929;


Sources

Bredius, A. and Van Gelder, H. E. In memoriam Ferrand W. Hudig Oud Holland 55 (1937): 97-99; Hintzen, J. D. „Ferrand Whaley Hudig (Rotterdam 25 Juni 1883-Aerdenhout 31 Maart 1937) in Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde te Leiden 1937-1938 (1938): 151-160;



Contributors: Monique Daniels


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Professor of art history and decorative arts museum curator. Hudig was born in Rotterdam where his father and his brother were members of the shipping firm Hudig and Veder. The young Hudig apprenticed at the firm of Ryley and Company in London. Be