HOFFMANN Godwin : POLYPTIQUE - 8 original aquatinta prints by Godwin HOFFMANN

 

Godwin Hoffmann works with very strict rules of composition.

This harshness doesn't exclude brush traces and paint leakage: the evidences of the pictural gesture.

His rigorous approach of art, plays with "forms" on paper or canvas. The support itself becomes an important part of the artwork.

His work, especially the one done with drawing charcoal, has been compared to the preparatory sketches of a sculptor.

" My artistic evolution has been determined by distance and abstraction.

On one side my quest for knowledge and truth inherited from my education, on the other side I look for the elementary, the origin, sensuality and the touch.

Obtaining a thick black that seems to absorb all light, pretending to the absolute.

This kind of work is very demanding"

 

Godwin Hoffmann

Automne 1994

 

1945

Born in Buchenbeuren, West Germany

1967-72

Studies at Staatlische Kunstrakademie de Düsseldorf

1971

Graduated from Meisterschüler

1973

Move to Strasbourg, France.

1995-96

New workshop in Neuwiller Lès Saverne in France, works and lives there since then.

 

Godwinn Hoffmann has been showing his artworks since 1969 in Germany, Switzerland, France and then from 1982 onward in others European countries and Usa.

 

Some of his latest exhibitions:

 

Personnel exhibitions

 

1996          

Foraum, Galerie Brigitte Klebac, München.

  Vera Engelhorn Gallery, New York.

1997          

Vera Engelhorn Gallery, New York.

Museum im Ritterhaus, Offenburg.

1998          

Galerie Suzanne Fischer, Baden-Baden.

Galerie Brigitte V. Tempelhoff, Karlsruhe. Galerie Espace Suisse, Strasbourg.

1999          

Galerie Eric Linard, La Garde Adhémar.

2000          

Art et Partage, Clinique de l'Orangerie, Strasbourg.

2001          

Frac Alsace, Sélestat, (Godwin Hoffmann - Klaus Stöber).

Galerie George - Michel Kahn, Strasbourg.

2002          

g.h. et g.h. Peintures et travaux sur papier, galerie Espace suisse, Strasbourg.

 

 

Collective exhibitions

 

1994          

Goethe-Institut, Thessaloniki, Grèce.

Kunst in der Ortenau, Offenburg.

Sickingen-Kunstpreis, Theodor-Zinck-Museum, Kaiserslautern,RFA.

Daniel Henry Kahnweiler-Preis, Rockenhausen, RFA.

1995          

Vera Engelhorn Gallery, New York.

Toto-Lotto Kunstpreis, Coblence, Trève, RFA.

L'Abreuvoir, CEAAC, Prix de la Région d'Alsace.

Hommage à Marcelle Cahn, Le Faisant, Strasbourg.

Art Cologne, Vera Engelhorn Gallery, NY, Cologne.

Vera Engelhorn Gallery, New York.

1996          

Galerie Eric Linard, SAGA, Paris.

             23, Jahresausstellung der Gesellschaft Freunde junger Kunst Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. 6, Kunstpreis der Kreissparkasse Esslingen-Nürtingen. Kunst in der Ortenau, Spitalspeicher, Offenburg, RFA.

La Laiterie, Strasbourg.

Galerie Forum, Munich.

Kunstpreis der Stadt Bühl für Zeichnung, Bühl.

Hommage à la galerie l'Expression, Galerie espace Suisse,Strasbourg.

1997          

Moving Space Gallery, Gand, Belgique.

5 ans d'acquisitions, FRAC Alsace, Sélestat/Strasbourg.

Künstler machen Schilder für Rottweil, Forum Kunst, Rottweil.

Galerie K., Paris. Galerie Espace Suisse, Strasbourg.

1998          

Galerie Eric Linard, SAGA, Paris. Frankfurter Buchmesse, Gal. V. Tempelhoff.

1999          

Galerie v. Tempelhoff, St'art 99, Strasbourg.

Galerie Bucciali, St'art 99, Strasbourg.

Galerie Eric Linard, FIAC, Paris.

CRAC Alsace, Eric Linard.

2000          

St'art, Galerie Bucciali, Strasbourg.

Objet lire, Galerie Espace Suisse, Strasbourg.

20 Jahre Künstlerkreis Offenburg.

24.Grobe Jahresausstellung, Gesellschaft der Freunde junger Kunst, Baden-Baden.

2001          

Moving Space Gallery, Gavere, Belgique.

Les Lauréats du CEAAC, St’art 2002, Strasbourg.

51 Artistes  édités par Eric Linard, Espace cloître Saint-Louis, Avignon.

2002          

Editions Rémy Bucciali, de l’interprétation, CRAC, Altkirch.

Abstractions Dé/Des constructions, CRAC, Altkirch.

Bilder aus Baden, Kunstsammlung der Badischen Stahlwerke, Foyer des EnBW Gebäudes, Karlsruhe, Allemagne.