Wlastimil Hofman (1881 Prague - 1970 Szklarska Poreba), Wanderers, 1924.

oil, cardboard, 67.5 × 96 cm light frame
Signed and dated p. d.: "Wlastimil Hofman/1924"

Adam Chełstowski Ad-Arte's expert opinion of 2018 attached to the painting.

"I cannot agree with the term above all, but I can assure everyone that I am a painter of thoughts and experiences. People are only seemingly alike. Even twins sometimes show extremely different characters. Every human being intrigues me because they have something unique about them,
something interesting."

Wlastimil Hofman, quoted in B. Czajkowski, "Portrait from Memory," Ossolineum 1971, p. 137.

"One of his most common themes is Old Age and Youth and the depictions of young girls and old men associated with these themes. One of the adjacent themes of the artist's works from this period are depictions of wanderers, shown singly, in pairs, at different ages were also identified with St. Christopher. Perhaps this is a reminiscence of the subject matter of Siberian exiles once painted by Malczewski. Hofman's symbolism was more about a more general struggle with fate, which throws people all over the world, usually leaving no choice. The artist himself went into exile during the Second World War, during which he ended up in Palestine, confirming with his own fate the earlier reflections visible in the art."

Excerpted from Adam Chelstowski's 2018 Ad-Arte expert report.