Michael Hofmann (graphic designer)

Michael Hofmann (born September 9, 1944 in Chemnitz ) is a German painter and graphic artist ( woodcut ).

Live and act

After his professional training as a "use advertisers and reproduction photographer" in the years 1961 to 1965 studied Hofmann 1969-1974 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden . This was followed by a time until 1977 as a master student with Gerhard Bondzin .

From 1977 Hofmann was a freelance painter and graphic artist in the Association of Visual Artists , and since 1991 in the Saxon Artists Association and in the New Saxon Art Association .

From 2002 he was a lecturer at the Free Academy in Bad Reichenhall .

In addition to painting and glass work, Hofmann specializes in color woodblock prints. In 2002 he received the graphic award 100 Saxon graphics .

Works for public space can be found in Dresden, for example, where he and Hans-Volker Mixsa designed the education center of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 1999 . For the Hapag-Lloyd freight ship Dresden Express , built in 1991, he painted two large-format panels. In the 1970s and 1980s, glass windows were made for churches in Dresden- Kleinzschachwitz , Gera ( Lusan and Langenberg ), Schleiz and Halsbrücke . From 1994 he started joint book projects with Peter Zaumseil, Konrad Schmid and Hans-Volker Mixsa, and since 2010 he has been working with the Radebeul-based poet Thomas Gerlach .

Hofmann and his work are included in the " Bildatlas Art in the GDR - a joint project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research".

Hofmann has lived and worked in Radebeul since 1999 .

Publicly owned work

• Kupferstichkabinett , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
• New Masters Gallery , Dresden
• Dresden City Museum
• Lindenau Museum , Altenburg
• State collection of books and engravings in Greiz
• Stadtsparkasse Dresden
• Regional Council Tübingen
• Bavarian State Library , Munich
• German library , Leipzig
• Custody of the Technical University of Dresden
• Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg

Works

• Woodcut and painting. Klinger, Passau 2004. ISBN 3-932949-27-7 .
• together with Alexander Stoll: Michael Hofmann - Engel. Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz 2006. ISBN 3-937176-09-8 .
• Glass windows, collages, painting. Notschriften-Verlag, Radebeul 2009. ISBN 978-3-940200-40-2 .
• Together with Thomas Gerlach (poetry): Herbstzeitlose. Notschriften-Verlag, Radebeul 2010. ISBN 978-3-940200-54-9 .

literature

• Volkhard Böhm: Michael Hofmann: Messages and truths and the window to the world; Graphics from the last few years. In: Graphische Kunst: international journal for book art and graphics. Visel, Memmingen 2003, ISSN  0342-3158 , pp. 40-45.
• Wolfgang Zimmermann: "A cool morning between the years"; Werner Wittig and Michael Hofmann exhibit in the premises of the Sparkasse . In: Radebeuler Monatshefte eV (Ed.): Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area . January 2014, p. 8th f . (with a color woodcut by the artist).

Web links

• Michael Hofmann's website (with a photo of the artist and numerous works).
• Michael Hofmann. In: Art in the GDR.
• Pleinair - cityscapes | 6 artists see Dresden: Michael Hofmann - Vita at art + form, Dresden (with an exhibition list and a list of works in public spaces and in public ownership).
• Biography at Kunstausstellung Kühl , Dresden (with a number of works).
• Short biography at Galerie Silvia Strüßmann, Detmold (with a number of works).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography ( memento from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at Galerie Ines Schulz, Dresden (with a work by Hofmann).
2. ↑ Pleinair - Cityscapes | 6 artists see Dresden: Michael Hofmann - Vita at art + form, Dresden.
3. ^ Woodcuts by Michael Hofmann in the Erfurt art dealer. In: Thüringer Allgemeine from March 17, 2012 (with a work by Hofmann).
4. ^ Dresden Express. ( Memento from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Michael Hofmann. In: Bildatlas Art in the GDR .
6. ↑ Michael Hofmann. In: Stadtwiki Dresden.