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Self-Portrait. Farewell to the Art Studio

Wlastimil Hofman

Basic information

ID: Ж-2301
Author: Wlastimil Hofman
Name: Self-Portrait. Farewell to the Art Studio
Date of creation: 1921
Country: Poland
Technique: oil painting
Material: cardboard
Dimensions: 49 x 52.5 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: portraiture
Provenance: the Lubomirski collection

Information about author

Author: Wlastimil Hofman
Author in the original: Vlastimil Hofmann, Wlastimil Hofman
Artist's lifetime: 1881–1970
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland
Biography: Wlastimil Hofman was a Polish-Czech artist. He was born on April 27, 1881, in Karlin (Prague district), Austria-Hungary. He was one of the most famous European painters of the Art Nouveau style, and a representative of Symbolism. From 1889, he worked in Krakow, where from 1896 he studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of Jacek Malczewski, Leon Jan Wyczolkowski, and Jan Stanislawski. Between 1899 and 1901, he studied in Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme. The works of the Symbolist artist Jacek Malczewski had a great influence on Hofmann’s oeuvre; they remained friends until the artist's death. The painter died on March 6, 1970, in Szklarska Poreba, Poland.

Object description

This is a portrait of a man with a mustache looking intently at the viewers. He is dressed in a blue shirt.The wide overlay white collar of the shirt is tied with a black bow. On the left there is a table on which there are painting accessories; a part of a round window is visible at the top of the painting.

Inscriptions

At the top right there is an author's inscription "Wlastimil Hofmann/Bonarka 14/1 1921".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery