Vlastimil Hofman, HUNGER.

24.5 x 34.5cm - oil, cardboard signed p.d.: Wlastimil | Hofman.

On the lower bar of the frame a sticker of the auction house.



Provenance:

- Collection of Zbigniew Mikulski (1925-2017) in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland;

- In a private collection in Poland since 2019.



Image exhibited and reproduced:

- N. Pichłacz, M. Skowronska, A. Kielczynska, M. Kardas (eds.), Returns. The Swiss collection of Zbigniew Mikulski. Exhibition catalog, Take Care Foundation, 24 May - 31 August 2019, Bydgoszcz 2019, p. 106, il.



♣ to the auctioned price, in addition to other costs, will be added a fee resulting from 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.