Jan Cornelis Hofman
Dutch painter (1889-1966)
Jan Cornelis Hofman, alias Jean Hofman, was a Dutch post-impressionist painter, born on April 12, 1889, in Nieuwer-Amstel (Netherlands) and died on April 30, 1966, in Schaerbeek, Brussels (Belgium). He began as a decorator and porcelain painter in Delft (Netherlands).
His post-impressionist artistic preferences led him to paint Flemish landscapes, seascapes, farmhouse interiors, still lifes and flowers, but very few portraits. Living in Brussels as from 1913, he was member of the free workshop L'Effort and is mainly considered a Belgian artist.
Biography
Hofman was born on April 12, 1889, in Nieuwer-Amstel (Netherlands). At the age of ten, he was placed in an orphanage in Dieren (Arnhem), after the death of his father. He began by reproducing decorative motifs and spent his free time roaming the area to better understand landscapes. He then worked for some time as an apprentice to a house painter, then became a porcelain painter, first in Delft, then in Makkum, a small town in Friesland.
In 1909, he lived in Brussels and then in Cologne. He worked mainly in the Netherlands until 1913.
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