Dimensions: 125 x 95 cm
Signed and dated l.d.: 'Wlastimil | Hofman 1935'.
on the reverse: oval stamp of Iskra & Karmański, Cracow, a trace of an unpreserved exhibition sticker of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw, on the painting's loom and on the frame numerical notes
Provenance
collection of Kazimierz Cegłowski, Warsaw (purchased after an exhibition at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts) (?)
private collection, Warsaw
Exhibited
Group exhibition of works by Wlastimil Hofman, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw, April 23-May 19, 1938 (?).
Literature
Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw for the year 1938, Warsaw 1939, p. 22 (?)
Guide no. 132, Collective exhibition of works by Wlastimil Hofman, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Warsaw 1938, cat. no. 28, p. 4 (?)
Biography
Between 1895 and 1899 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.
