Cornelius Müller Hofstede

Cornelius Müller Hofstede (2 February 1898 - 29 July 1974) was a German art historian and museum director.

He passing his school-leaving certificate in Weimar in 1918 before studying at the universities in München under Heinrich Wölfflin, Vienna and Berlin.

In 1924 he gained his doctorate in Berlin, supervised by Adolph Goldschmidt, with a thesis entitled "Contribtuions on Biblical history paintings in the 16th and 17th century Netherlands".

In the following years he published several studies of Dutch Baroque painters, which showed him to be a knowled After some time volunteering at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich and at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin under Wilhelm von Bode, he became assistant and head assistant at the art historical seminar of Berlin University under Goldschmidt and Albert Erich Brinckmann.

He subsequently adopted the surname Müller Hofstede (without a hyphen) to avoid confusion with his colleagues.