Otto Hofmann (artist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetOtto Hofmann (artist)
German artist
Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Otto Hofmann (artist)
- Otto Hofmann (28 April 1907 in Essen – 23 July 1996 in Pompeiana) was a German painter. He was student of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky while studying at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1927 to 1930.
- With the arrival of Nazism Hofmann was marginated and his work banned as degenerate.
- During World War II from 1940 to 1946 he was a prisoner in U.S.S.R..
- At the end of the war he went back Thuringia in Germany, which at that time was part of the former East Germany.
- In 1950, after leaving all his possessions, he repaired to Berlin.
- Since then he worked between Berlin, Paris and Switzerland.
- In the mid-1970s he moved to Pompeiana, a small village not too far from Sanremo, Italy where he would remain until his death.
- Otto Hofmann's works vary from oil-painting, watercolor, drawing, graphics (xylography e lithography) to objects of porcelain and ceramic.
Read more at Wikipedia