Vlastimil Hofmann

Place: Prague

Born: 1881

Death: 1970

Biography:

Vlastimil Hofmann, also known as Wlastimil Hofman, was a Polish painter born in Prague, Czech Republic in 1881. He was one of the more popular painters of the interwar and postwar years. Hofmann was born to a Czech father and a Polish mother. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He had his first showings in an exhibition by the 'Sztuka' society in 1902 and exhibited in Munich, Amsterdam, Rome, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, and Warsaw. In 1904, he painted the first of his village (or peasant) 'Madonnas'. In 1905, he started the cycle of pictures called 'Confession' which brought him international recognition. In 1907, he became a member of the Gallery of the Vienna Secession. Hofmann died in Szklarska Poreba, Poland in 1970.