Dimensions: 32 x 47 cm
Signed p.d.: 'Wlastimil Hofman'.
on the reverse a paper sticker of the framing studio
Origins
DESA Unicum, Warsaw, February 2016
private collection, Poland
Biography
Between 1895 and 1899 he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow under Florian Cynk, Jacek Malczewski, Jozef Unierzyski and Jan Stanislawski. He spent the years 1899-1901 at the Paris Academie des Beaux-Arts under J. L. Gerôme. During World War II he was in the USSR, Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem. After returning to Poland, he settled in Cracow and then moved to Szklarska Poreba. He was a member of TAP "Art", Group Zero, Group Five and the Vienna "Secession", among others. His work was greatly influenced by the symbolic work of J. Malczewski. Hofman painted mainly religious paintings, genre scenes, portraits and landscapes. His models were often poor, simple people, who gained a timeless dignity in his works.
