• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH000525

Ursula Hoff interviewed by Amy McGrath [sound recording]

  • Repository National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
  • Reference ORAL TRC 1086
  • Date Range 9-Jul-81 - 9-Jul-81
  • Description

    Hoff, an art critic and historian, talks on her childhood and education; her early impressions of art; her years as a student; various jobs in Australia; wrote several books; took out a degree in Hamburg; became the Australian delegate to the Rembrandt Exhibition; buying art for the National Gallery of Victoria; gives a description of how art was influenced by the war period in Europe and how art is influenced by the artist’s country.

  • Access Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
  • Finding Aid Timed summary (7 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 43 leaves) available.

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  • Primary Creator
    • Hoff, Ursula (1909 - 2005)