Adam Hoffmann (1918-2001), By the Water, 1968

Crayon drawing, dimensions: 37 x 53 cm (with frame)
Handwritten signature: p.d. (photo)

Adam Hoffman (1918-2001) - draughtsman, painter, also worked on posters. 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 painting studios of Władysław Jarocki and Eugeniusz Eibisch, and in the graphics studio of Konrad Srzednicki). He was an educator at art high schools in Katowice and Krakow, and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, at the Katowice branch, and at the Graphics Department in Krakow. 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 his art was 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.