Adam HOFFMANN

Charcoal, crayon, pencil, paper; 43 x 31.5 cm (light frame)

Signed p.d.: Dz / 9.VII / 1969

Asking price 800

Estimate 1500 - 1800

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Adam HOFFMANN

1918 Krakow 1918 - 2001 Krakow

He began his studies in 1938 at the Jagiellonian University and at Alfred Terlecki's private school of drawing and painting. He continued his studies during the occupation at the Kunstgewerbeschule, and in 1945-48 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (in the studios of painting of Władysław Jarocki and Eugeniusz Eibisch and graphics of Konrad Srzednicki). Pedagogue at art high schools in Katowice and Cracow, and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, at the Katowice branch, and at the Cracow Department of Graphics. A draughtsman, painter, he also worked on posters.Adam Hoffmann was a peer of the artists of the Cracow Group, he was friends with Jerzy Nowosielski and Jerzy Skarzynski, but as an artist he remained in opposition to the trend of avant-garde painting. He created his own individual world. The main theme of Adam Hoffmann's art is the relationship between a man and a woman, which he depicted grotesquely, caricatured and sarcastically. He invoked biblical (Salome), mythological (The Abduction of Europa) and Shakespearean motifs, but actually created his own iconography. Those who look at the artist's drawings at first see a world that seems to them simply ugly, but later for many will be fascinating, they will discover the wisdom of the author, and that the world seen through his eyes is extremely funny.He participated in the exhibition of young visual arts in the "Arsenal" in Warsaw in 1955.Among the individual exhibitions are the exhibitions in Warsaw of drawing and painting in Kordegarda 1966 and drawing in Zachęta 1972, as well as drawing in Krakow at the Palace of Art 1973.In 2003. The National Museum in Cracow organized a major retrospective exhibition of the artist's works "Adam Hoffmann. Draughtsman".