Heinrich Adolf Valentin Hoffmann

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The Kleine Kettenhof in Frankfurt am Main . Painting by Heinrich Adolf Valentin Hoffmann, 1857. Oil on canvas, 35.5 × 53.5 cm.

Heinrich Adolf Valentin Hoffmann (* 18th October 1814 in Frankfurt am Main , † 11 June 1896 ibid ) was a German landscape painter .

life and work

Hoffmann (signature: H. Hoffmann ) was a student of Jakob Becker at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut from 1843 to 1850 . He found his motifs mainly in his home in Frankfurt and on excursions in the surrounding area, preferring romantic depictions of forests and historical buildings in medium format. Representations of Swiss mountain landscapes that he painted on study trips are also known. He was known to the artists of the Kronberg painters' colony Antom Burger and Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann and Philipp Rumpf . The portrait of Georg Büchner , an undated pencil drawing, which is occasionally attributed to him in literature , comes from the Mannheim theater painter August Hoffmann (1807–1883).

One of Hoffmann's students was his son Jakob Hoffmann (1851–1903), who then studied at the academies in Munich and Düsseldorf and also became a landscape painter.

The artist's works are sometimes in auction trading represented

Works in public collections

  • “Forest Landscape”, 1869, oil on canvas, format 92.3 × 135.2 cm. Municipal Art Institute and Municipal Gallery Frankfurt am Main, inventory number 1532
  • “November Mood”, 1883, oil on canvas, format 63.7 × 93.5 cm. Municipal Art Institute and Municipal Gallery Frankfurt am Main, inventory number 1336

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personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Heinrich Adolf Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1896
Place of death Frankfurt am Main