Veit Hofmann

Veit Hofmann (born April 30, 1944 in Dresden ) is a German artist.

Life

Veit Hofmann was born in 1944 in the Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz , his parents were Erika and Werner Hofmann . He also spent his childhood there and was artistically influenced by his roommates Helmut Schmidt-Kirstein , Wilhelm Lachnit , Hermann Glöckner and Hans Jüchser . At his father's request, he completed an apprenticeship as a printer from 1960 to 1967. He then studied art from 1967 to 1972 at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts with Gerhard Kettner and Herbert Kunze and has since worked as a freelance artist.

During and after his art studies, Veit Hofmann dealt with various printmaking techniques such as etching , woodcut and lithography . During this time he made numerous study trips to the east, mostly in the company of his artist friends Helge Leiberg , Stefan Plenkers and Rainer Zille . In 1985 he moved back into an apartment in the Dresden Künstlerhaus, where he developed his own collage technique. In 1988 he invented together with Otto Sander Tischbein the telephone art for the GDR and began an ongoing collaboration with the graphics printer and publisher Ulrich Grimm. In 1990 he climbed the "Holy Mount Athos " in the footsteps of Erhart Kästner . In 1992 he bought a house in Pannonhalma / Hungary, which he expanded into a studio house. There he dealt intensively with large-format graphics (mainly woodcuts ). Together with Max Uhlig , he founded a fund for public purposes in 1993 called “Artists Help Artists”.

literature

• Gerd Söder: Between thirty and forty. On the work of the Dresden artists Veit Hofmann, Rainer Zille and Stefan Plenkers. In: Fine arts. H. 9, 1980, pp. 455-458.
• Christoph Tannert: Telephone art. New art form of the almost modern. In: Interclub. 1988.
• Matthias Flügge: A permanent metamorphosis. In: Fine arts. No. 1, 1990.
• Bernd Heise: Homo Ludens 1994. Portrait of Veit Hofmann. In: fama. No. 2, 1994.
• Wolfgang Holler: Creative Flow. Catalog Veit Hofmann. Dresden 1999.
• Sybille Badstübner-Gröger: On the painting of the artist Veit Hofmann. In: Nike new Art in Europe. No. 61.
• Karin Weber: A studio visit to Veit Hofmann. Catalog Veit Hofmann Serigraphs 1988-2000. Magdeburg 2000.
• Michael Nungesser : Anemophile. In: Goetzen, international, interdisciplinary art project. Catalog. Frankfurt / Oder 2004.
• Catalog: Art in the Stadtsparkasse Dresden. 2004.
• Artist in Dresden. Literary portraits. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden.
• Städtische Galerie Dresden: Guide through the collection of paintings. Prestlel, 2005.

Web links

• Literature by and about Veit Hofmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait of Veit Hofmann on rp-dresden.de