Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska, Stefania [Editor]; Małkiewicz, Barbara [Editor]; Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie [Editor]; Gołubiew, Zofia [Editor]; Blak, Halina [Editor]: Modern Polish painting: the catalogue of collections (Band 3): Polish painting after the year 1945 (Cracow, 2005)

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HOFFMANN

Adam HOFFMANN SK
Cracow 1918 - Cracow 2001
At first (1938) he attended Alfred Terlecki's Private School of Painting; in the years 1940-1942 he
studied in the StaatHche Kunstgewerbeschule in Cracow and belonged to the conspirational Group
of Young Plastic Artists. In the period 1944-1948 he continued his studies at the Cracow Acad-
emy of Fine Arts under Wladyslaw Jarocki, Eugeniusz Eibisch and Konrad Srzednicki (diploma in
1955). In 1955 he participated in the All-Polish Exhibition of Young Plastic Artists "Against War,
Against Fascism" in the Varsovian Arsenal. He was a teacher connected with the State Secondary
School of Plastic Arts in Katowice and the Faculty of Graphic Art in the Katowice branch of the
Cracovian Academy; from 1975 to 1978 he directed the atelier of drawing at the Graphic Faculty
of the Academy.
He wrote works on artistic education and acted as a painter, drawer and poster designer interested
in both surrealism and the expressiveness of the depicted world.


333.
Portrait of Aieksandra Karzynska,
[ca. 1953]
Oil on canvas, 52 * 43
Elnsigned
Inv. no MNK ll-b-1643 (310 064)
Taken over from the CBWA in 1960
Aieksandra Karzynska was a Cracovian actress.


334.
Portrait, [ca. 1955]
Oil on cardboard, 49 * 40
Unsigned
Inv. no MNK Il-b-1640 (310 061)
Taken over from the CBWA in 1960


335.
Dance, 1958
Oil on plywood, 98 * 60
Unsigned; on the reverse the inscription:
Adam Ho/fmann Krakow Biskupia 5/10
Dance oil on plywood 95 * 60 1955
Inv. no MNK H-b-2615 (318 074)
Purchased from the author in 1978