May Hofer
May Hofer (born September 8, 1896 in Chybi , Silesia as May Ottawa ; † May 3, 2000 in Bozen , South Tyrol) was a South Tyrolean textile and enamel artist .
Life
May Ottawa, who came from a Galician industrial family, came to Pola after the early death of her father in 1909 to join her mother's brothers, who were stationed there as officers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy . From 1914 to 1918 she attended the Vienna School of Applied Arts and took courses with Rosalia Rothansl (fabrics) and Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill (fashion sketches). There she met the South Tyrolean painter and architect Anton Hofer , whom she married in 1919. In 1920 she moved with him to Bozen, his hometown . For several years the couple ran a hotel in Miramare near Riminidesigned by Anton Hofer. After her return to Bolzano, May Hofer had a studio on Leonardo-da-Vinci-Straße.
After the Second World War, she visited the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna again as a guest student and studied enamel with Otto Nedbal . From his wife Marika Nedbal-Dolnizka she learned the technique of Russian mesh enamel. May Hofer created tapestries and enamel works in which she combined elements of Art Nouveau , the Wiener Werkstätte and the Slavic Orthodox and Jewish culture of Eastern Europe.
From 1964 May Hofer had numerous exhibitions in Italy and other countries. She traveled to Thailand, Russia, Israel and India, among others. She died in Bozen in 2000 at the age of 103.
Awards and honors
- Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art , 1988
- Name of the May-Hofer-Passage in Bozen, 2013
Works
- Village of my homeland , panel made of fabric mosaic, 1950
- Hahn announces the morning , panel made of fabric mosaic, 1961
- Sunken City , panel made of fabric mosaic, 1968 (bought by Bozner Sparkasse)
- Creation cycle , textile mosaic in three sections, 1969, Museum of Applied Arts , Vienna
- The find of the Lady of Elche , tapestry, 1990
- The Queen of Sheba , tapestry, 1990
- The Tower of Babel , tapestry, 1995
- Tabernacle, enamel, Girlan Jesus home
- Tabernacle and Pietà, retirement home in Castelrotto
- The good shepherd , enamel painting, Völs am Schlern nursing home
literature
- Hofer May. In: Ilse Korotin (ed.): BiografiA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 1 A – H, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 1323 ( PDF; 10.1 MB )
- Sylvia Hofer: May Hofer. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Passage to the Museion named after May Hofer. City of Bolzano, press release of June 13, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hofer, May |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ottawa, May (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian textile and enamel artist (South Tyrol) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chybi , Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 2000 |
| Place of death | Bolzano , South Tyrol |