Justus Müller Hofstede

Justus Müller Hofstede (9 May 1929 - 27 April 2015) was a German art historian, the son of the art historian Cornelius Müller Hofstede (1898–1974), who had been director of the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin from 1957 to 1964.

Born in Berlin, he received his doctorate from Freiburg University in 1959, habilitating from the University of Bonn with a thesis on Peter Paul Rubens' time in Italy from 1600 to 1608.

From 1996 to 1998 he was a lecturer on its "The Renaissance in Italy and its European Reception" course on the graduate programme.

[1] From 1977 to 2004 he was chairman of Bonn's Local History and History Association (Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein) and in that role was a co-founder of the Bonn City Museum.

In 1985 he received the Rhineland Medal, in 1990 the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 1995 the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.