Gaston Hoffmann Furniture
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.
1930s French Vintage Gaston Hoffmann Furniture
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Early 20th Century French French Provincial Gaston Hoffmann Furniture
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Gaston Hoffmann Furniture
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1850s English Antique Gaston Hoffmann Furniture
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1960s French French Provincial Vintage Gaston Hoffmann Furniture
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Early 18th Century Antique Gaston Hoffmann Furniture
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Early 19th Century Swiss William IV Antique Gaston Hoffmann Furniture
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Mid-19th Century Antique Gaston Hoffmann Furniture
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1960s French French Provincial Vintage Gaston Hoffmann Furniture
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1840s Antique Gaston Hoffmann Furniture
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19th Century Belgian Modern Antique Gaston Hoffmann Furniture
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1970s English Vintage Gaston Hoffmann Furniture
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1980s English Vintage Gaston Hoffmann Furniture
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