Gaston Hoffmann Prints and Multiples
Gaston Hoffmann (French, 1883-1960) worked as a painter, decorator, cartoonist, and illustrator in France and Quebec throughout the first half of the 20th century. He examined contemporary events and subjects in his work as well as explored the limits of his imagination. Hoffmann is known for his theatrical paintings as well as his satirical prints. Hoffmann was born in Paris and was educated there at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian. After the war he worked between 1918 and 1921 together with his friend Charles Schneider, for whose glass factory he decorated vases with delicate plant, flower and animal motifs inspired by the Art Nouveau style. At the time, he also worked for the Sèvres porcelain factory, designed posters and painted two large murals in Quebec, teaching at the academy there between 1924 and 1926. He painted narrative genre scenes, often with a humorous undertone, but also representations of wonderful underwater worlds populated by nereids and strange creatures. He translated themes from literature, poetry and the Bible into performances full of emotion and deals with themes that, surprisingly, are still topical. He wrote educational books for elementary school art, created cartoons, murals, painted altarpieces, illustrated books, and caricatures, for example, of the pompous French judiciary. Hoffmann died in Metz in 1977, aged 95.
1950s Realist Gaston Hoffmann Prints and Multiples
Paper, Watercolor, Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Realist Gaston Hoffmann Prints and Multiples
Paper, Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Realist Gaston Hoffmann Prints and Multiples
Paper, Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Gaston Hoffmann Prints and Multiples
Paper, Lithograph
20th Century Realist Gaston Hoffmann Prints and Multiples
Paper, Color, Lithograph
1990s Pop Art Gaston Hoffmann Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
2010s Gaston Hoffmann Prints and Multiples
Pigment
1970s American Impressionist Gaston Hoffmann Prints and Multiples
Paper, Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Gaston Hoffmann Prints and Multiples
Canvas, Giclée
Late 20th Century Realist Gaston Hoffmann Prints and Multiples
Paper, Lithograph
2010s Street Art Gaston Hoffmann Prints and Multiples
Paper, Acrylic, Screen
1920s Impressionist Gaston Hoffmann Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
2010s Contemporary Gaston Hoffmann Prints and Multiples
Acrylic, Lithograph
2010s Contemporary Gaston Hoffmann Prints and Multiples
Rag Paper
1960s Pop Art Gaston Hoffmann Prints and Multiples
Offset, Gouache
21st Century and Contemporary Gaston Hoffmann Prints and Multiples
Fabric, Rag Paper, Giclée
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Gaston Hoffmann Prints and Multiples
Paper, Lithograph
20th Century Other Art Style Gaston Hoffmann Prints and Multiples
Etching