Am sad to read of the death of Michael Kaufmann, who was Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the V&A when I arrived in 1982: an unfailingly helpful, genial and occasionally sardonic figure who I associate more with the Warburg where he had been a student in the 1950s when it was still in South Kensington than with the Courtauld where he moved as its Director in 1985.

He was presumably a student of Hugo Buchtal and worked in the Warburg’s Photographic Collection before moving to Manchester City Art Gallery as an Assistant Keeper in 1960. At the V&A, he was Assistant to the Director in the early 1960s – it must have been to Trenchard Cox, before John Pope-Hennessy took over. It was always said that Michael had been instrumental in establishing the V&A’s Education Department which is extremely likely as he had an active commitment to the educational aspects of the museum, which is no doubt partly why he moved in the 1980s to the Courtauld.

https://courtauld.ac.uk/news-blogs/2023/professor-michael-kaufmann-fba-1931-2023/