Wolf Hoffmann (painter)

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Wolf Hoffmann (born March 1, 1898 in Wernigerode , † 1979 in Berlin ) was a German painter and etcher and professor at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin-Weißensee .

Hoffmann was born the son of the writer and general secretary of the German Schiller Foundation Weimar, Hans Hoffmann . He attended the Prussian Cadet School and was a soldier in France during the First World War . From 1919 to 1922 he attended the architecture class at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Berlin-Charlottenburg, but turned to painting and printmaking. In 1935 he returned to the arts and crafts school and took a course in the ceramics class. During the Second World War, almost all of his works were destroyed by acts of war. After 1945 he began a new beginning. In 1950 he was given a teaching position for etching and free graphics at the Berlin University of Fine Arts. Hoffmann was married to the actress Karin Evans since 1931 .

He was a professor at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin-Weißensee until 1966 and died in a car accident in 1979. He left behind numerous works, primarily with landscapes, figurative or floral depictions, etchings and some wood and linocuts.

Exhibitions

  • 1928: Collective exhibition in the Ferdinand Möller gallery in Berlin
  • 1933: Exhibition of 30 German artists in Berlin
  • 1935: Collective exhibition in the Ferdinand Möller gallery in Berlin
  • 1948: Galerie Schüler in Berlin
  • 1950: Galerie Schüler in Berlin
  • 1950: Bremer Gallery in Berlin
  • 1951: Exhibition of the German Association of Artists 1950 in Berlin
  • 1967: Large art exhibition in Munich ( Jardiniere , tinted pencil drawing, 65 × 90 cm)
  • 1978: Wolf Hoffmann on his 80th birthday - paintings, watercolors, drawings and graphics , Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin

literature

  • Hoffmann, Wolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 466 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Artis magazine, issues 1–2; Issues 4–6; Issues 8–12, Dr. Neinhous Verlag, 1968 p. 8
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Wernigerode
DATE OF DEATH 1979
Place of death Berlin