Otto Hofmann European artist: from the Bauhaus to Italy, Exhibition Ragghianti Foundation, Lucca

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Otto Hofmann European artist: from the Bauhaus to Italy

From 3 May to 14 July 2024

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Ragghianti Foundation

Via S. Micheletto, 3, Lucca

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The Ragghianti Foundation presents, with the support of the Lucca Savings Bank Foundation and the support of Banco BPM, a retrospective dedicated to the German artist Otto Hofmann (Essen, 1907 - Pompeiana, 1996), visitable from May 3 to July 14 in the rooms of the monumental complex of San Micheletto in Lucca. The exhibition, curated by Paolo Bolpagni and Giovanni Battista Martini, is the first dedicated to Otto Hofmann in our country for about fifteen years, and documents his entire artistic activity, including numerous unpublished works. The exhibition opens with the works created at the Bauhaus, where Hofmann was a student of Klee, Kandinsky, Albers, Schlemmer, Schmidt, Meyer, and Scheper, and where, in 1930, a personal exhibition of his paintings and drawings was set up. In addition, the illustrated notebooks of Hofmann from the lessons given by Klee and Kandinsky between 1928 and 1930 will be exhibited - a true rarity - as well as an anastatic documentation of the correspondence of his masters and the diploma he obtained at the school founded by Gropius. Forcibly enlisted in the Wehrmacht troops, Hofmann was sent to Russia, where he remained a prisoner until 1946. This difficult period (1940-1946) is represented with a series of precious watercolors, mostly unpublished, executed on the letters sent to his wife and friends, and with a series of touching photographs. Also exhibited are the works created immediately after the war upon his return to Thuringia from Russia, in a climate of suffering due to the growing political disagreements with the new communist ruling class, as well as those executed when he resumed his career as a painter, ceramist, designer, and academy teacher, alternating long stays in Belgium, France, and Italy. It is also possible to observe his activity in the field of graphics through woodcuts and lithographs made in the second half of the forties.

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Otto Hofmann European artist: from the Bauhaus to Italy

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