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Charles Constantine Hoffbauer (1875 - 1957)
Day at the Beach (Mother and Child)
Oil on paper
10 x 8 inches
Hoffbauer was born in Paris in 1875, the son of an Alsatian architect, artist and archaeologist who published Paris through the Ages. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Fernand Cormon and Gustave Moreau, rubbing shoulders with Matisse, Rouault, and Marquet, then won an Honorable Mention in the Salon of 1896 and academic prizes in 1898-99. At the Paris Universal Exposition he won a bronze medal. On a French government traveling scholarship called the Prix National du Salon, Hoffbauer discovered Italy, Greece and Egypt. Then the government purchased Champs de bataille in 1904 (Musée du Luxembourg). On a second scholarship in late 1909, Hoffbauer visited New York where he was greeted by his friend Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944), the creator of the "Gibson Girl." Hoffbauer was given two solo shows in 1911 and 1912 at Knoedler's, where his work would be handled in America In the introduction to the 1912 exhibition catalogue, art writer Arthur Hoeber wrote how the artist "assimilated something of our new world energy and alertness. One feels he has caught the spirit of American progress . . . with not a little of its vitality, for these pictures of our city . . . exude American bigness and bustle, the sense of accomplishment despite great obstacles. . . ." Eventually, Hoffbauer would win the coveted Legion of Honor.
One of his largest paintings, Dîner sur le toit, also referred to as Roof Garden, is a nine-foot-wide painting, now in the National Gallery of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. At the Paris Salon of 1905, the huge painting was the talk of the town. Several studies are known (Museum of the City of New York, among others). Claude Roger-Marx wrote on it in Chronique des Arts, and Arsène Alexandre praised it in Le Figaro (both on 29 April 1905). The critics raved over the painting's "luminous beauty," its "frankness," and the "escape from tradition." We see two well-to-do couples in formal attire seated around a table on the roof garden, before skyscrapers and searchlights, an image that captures the excitement of America's Progressive Era.
Hoffbauer served in the French Army as an official war artist during the first world war, won a Croix de Guerre and was the liaison to the American camouflage section. Recommended by the mural painter James Wall Finn, Hoffbauer received a commission in 1935 to paint murals for Battle Abbey, a Confederate memorial in Richmond, Virginia, which were criticized by Thomas Hart Benton for being too conventional. He wondered why a French-born artist had been chosen for the job.
Hoffbauer revisited America to accept a commission for a mural (Missouri at War) in the Missouri State Capitol, and was a member of the 1937 Exposition Internationale's jury. Two years later he became an American citizen, and finally settled in Rockport (Cape Ann) Massachusetts. The Museum of Modern Art in Paris has one of Hoffbauer's battle scenes and for Memorial Hall in Philadelphia Museum he executed Revolt of the Flemish. The artist died on 26 July 1957 in Boston.
- Creator:Charles Hoffbauer (1875-1957, French)
- Dimensions:Height: 15.5 in (39.37 cm)Width: 13.5 in (34.29 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU184129925512
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