Wlastimil Hofman

Wlastimil Hofman (* April 27, 1881 in Prague as Vlastimil Hofmann, † March 6, 1970 in Szklarska Poręba, Poland) was a Polish painter.

Life

Hofman was the son of Ferdinand Hofmann Czechs and the Polish woman Theofila, his Czech form of the name under which he was born, is Vlastimil Hofmann. Already in 1889 he went to Poland, where he attended school in Cracow. From 1896 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Jacek Malczewski. In 1899 he went to Paris to continue his studies at the city's École des Beaux -Arts. The first exhibition of his paintings he had in 1902 in the Artists' Association Sztuka, more exhibitions followed in Munich, Amsterdam, Rome, Berlin, Prague, Vienna and Warsaw. In 1907 he became the first Polish member of the Vienna Secession. Between 1914 and 1920 lived Hofman in Prague and Paris, but then returned in 1921 to Krakow, where he owned a house and studio. Around this time he changed, even under the influence of Jacek Malczewski, his name in the Polish form Wlastimil Hofman.

Hofman was married to a Jewish woman. So he fled with her ​​in 1939 from the Nazis about the Soviet Union and Turkey to Palestine. In 1946 he returned to Poland, where he met his second wife, also a Jewess, met with which in 1947 he retired to Szklarska Poręba in the Silesian Giant Mountains. In 1961 he was awarded the Cross of the Order of Polish Rebirth.

The former home is now a museum as Hofman Vlastimil Hofman house.

Performance

Hofman was representative of the young Polish Symbolism and influenced by Jacek Malczewski. His subjects were mostly religious and mythological scenes. He was made by Madonna, Child and depictions of angels in a rural environment. In addition, he also created portraits. Of the art styles of the 20th century modernism he was unaffected.

Hofman wrote poetry.

Works

  • A new lease of life ( Katowice, Silesian Museum ), 1906
  • Madonna with Jesus and Saint John the Baptist (Poznan, National Museum ), 1909, oil on canvas, 109 x 129 cm
  • Madonna (Lviv, Galeria Obrazów ), 1909, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm
  • Madonna (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1910, oil on canvas
  • Concert ( Krakow, National Museum ), 1910
  • Portrait of a Lady (Wroclaw, National Museum ), 1916
  • Spring ( Krakow, National Museum ), 1918
  • Lost happiness (Warsaw, National Museum ), 1919
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