Adam HOFFMANN, WOMAN ON A MAN'S HEAD, 1969

Charcoal, crayon, pencil, paper; 43 x 31.5 cm (light frame)
Signed p.d.: Dz / 9.VII / 1969
Asking price 300
Estimate 1000 - 1200
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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 was also involved in 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 in the first moment see a world that seems simply ugly, but later for many will be fascinating, 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, and drawing in Cracow in the Palace of Art 1973.In 2003. The National Museum in Krakow organized a major retrospective exhibition of the artist's works "Adam Hoffmann. Draughtsman.