Vlastimil Hofman, GOLD, 1922

50.5 x 74.0 cm - oil, cardboard signed p.d.: Wlastimil Hofmann | 1922



Provenance:

According to a message from the collector's family, the painting was purchased from the artist's studio by Stanislaw Pawel Zyfka-Zagrodziński, a pharmacist from Brwinow.



He represented an individuality completely different from Wojtkiewicz, contrasting his sarcastic and morbid art with lyrical type painting. In terms of subject matter, he sometimes referred to Malczewski, and in form he resembled both his teacher and Wyspianski, under whose influence he introduced flexible line and contour into his oil paintings, drawn, however, in a more discreet manner due to the difference in oil material.

Tadeusz Dobrowolski, Sztuka Młodej Polski, PWN, Warsaw 1963, p. 263.



♣ a fee will be added to the auctioned price, in addition to other costs, based on the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Law of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite).

Wlastimil Hofman / Vlastimil Hofmann (Prague 1881 - Szklarska Poreba 1970) studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow - initially under Florian Cynk, later also under Jan Stanislawski, Leon Wyczółkowski and Jacek Malczewski. In 1899-1902 he still studied with Jean Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. During World War I he stayed in Prague and Paris; from 1920 he lived permanently in Cracow. He exhibited a lot; he belonged to many creative associations - he was a co-founder of the "Group of Five" (1905) and the "Group of Zero" (1908), a member of the Association of Czech Artists "Manes", and from 1911 a member of the Polish Artists' Society "Sztuka". During World War II, through the USSR and Turkey, he made his way to Jerusalem, from where he returned to Krakow in 1946. Since 1947 he lived permanently in Szklarska Poreba. Hofman painted primarily fantastic-symbolic compositions with folk motifs, as well as genre scenes, portraits and landscapes. His paintings, despite close analogies and connections with the art of Malczewski, are always distinguished by their individual character, style and mood.