Otto Hofmann (artist)
Otto Hofmann (born April 28, 1907 in Essen , † July 23, 1996 in Pompeiana ( Liguria )) was a German painter who was trained at the Dessau Bauhaus .
life and work
From 1928 to 1930 Hofmann studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau , where he learned from Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky . In 1930 the Bauhaus set up its own exhibition for his works and in the same year he was invited by the Jena Art Association for the exhibition Young Artists from the Bauhaus Dessau . When the National Socialists came to power, his work was banned as degenerate and he fled to Switzerland and Paris as a member of the KPD . In 1934 he worked for Paul Klee in Bern . In 1935 he returned to Germany, married Hanna Stirnemann and lived in seclusion in Hainichen near Dornburg , where the couple worked closely with the ceramicist Otto Lindig . In 1939 Hofmann was called up for military service and served on the Eastern Front. In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets .
After his release he moved to Rudolstadt in Thuringia in 1946 , where he resumed his artistic activity. Since his work was not valued in the GDR either, he moved to West Berlin in 1950 , received the City of Berlin Art Prize there in 1953 and then lived as an artist in Paris from 1953 to 1965 . Between 1966 and 1975 Hofmann taught at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin. From 1976 he lived and worked in Pompeiana until his death.
The exhibition The Poetics of the Bauhaus in the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa divides his life's work into four phases: the Bauhaus and the years of censorship , Russia , the divided Germany and the European stays, and Pompeiana . The art historian Helmut Börsch-Supan said about Hofmann's work. For me, his pictures and the charisma of his personality are inextricably linked. He painted as he was, as an uncorruptible [sic] character who would rather be neglected than conform .
Occasionally, works by the artist can be found in auction shops.
Works in public collections
- Moon in the garden , oil on cardboard, 29.3 × 29.8 cm, Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover
literature
- Otto Hofmann: watercolors . Jena Art Association, 1994.
- Otto Hofmann: Paintings from 1968–1971 , exhibition catalog (Berlin Contemporary Artists, Issue 3). New Berlin Art Association, Berlin 1971.
- Ludwig Schreiner: The paintings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Lower Saxony State Gallery Hanover . Part 1, Bruckmann, 1973, ISBN 3-7654-1536-7 , p. 198.
- Hermann Wiesler : Otto Hofmann, pictures and watercolors . Döbele Gallery, 1986.
- Hofmann, Otto . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 469 .
- Krause, Markus (ed.): Otto Hofmann, Malerbriefe aus Russland. 1941-1944 . Verlag Kupfergraben, 2001.
Web links
- Exhibition Otto Hofmann on the occasion of his 100th birthday , in the Jena City Museum, Jena Art Collection, 2007.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Otto Hofmann - An Artist of the Bauhaus ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at meisterhaeuser.de.
- ↑ a b Article about Otto Hofmann ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on rczeitung.com.
- ↑ Otto Hofmann la poetica del Bauhaus on palazzoducale.genova.it.
- ↑ artnet.com .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hofmann, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1996 |
| Place of death | Pompeiana |