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Luxembourgish painter (1930–2024)

Germaine Hoffmann
BornGermaine Schmit
(1930-04-28)28 April 1930
Ospern, Luxembourg
Died22 July 2024(2024-07-22) (aged 94)
Luxembourg
NationalityLuxembourgish
Known forPainter, collage artist
Spouse Léopold Hoffmann ​ ​(m. 1950; died 2008)​
Children2

Germaine Hoffmann-Schmit (28 April 1930 – 22 July 2024) was a Luxembourgish painter and collage artist.

Life and work

Germaine Schmit married writer Léopold Hoffmann (1915–2008) in 1950. They were the parents of a daughter, who married actor André Jung, and director Frank Hoffmann. From 1968 to 1998, she took evening courses and summer academies in various artistic techniques, including at the Académie Européenne Libre des Beaux-Arts and the Lycée des Arts et Métiers.

Hoffmann-Schmit created paintings and collages in mixed media, in which she often incorporated torn newspapers. She was a member of the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, and had participated in the artist association's salons since 1987. Solo exhibitions include those at Galerie Simoncini (1986, 1991), at Clervaux Castle (1988), and at Casino Luxembourg (2020) with the exhibition Die Zeit ist ein gieriger Hund. In 2008, Hoffmann was appointed a Knight of the Order of Merit of Adolf of Nassau.

Hoffmann died on 22 July 2024, at the age of 94.

References

  1. ""Germaine Hoffmann"". National Museum of History and Art: Lëtzebuerger Konschtlexikon.
  2. Giulio-Enrico Pisani (2020). "Germaine Hoffmann dévore à pleine dents…". Zeitung vum Lëtzebuerger Vollek.
  3. Lambert Herr (2001). Signatures, portraits et auto-portraits : artistes plasticiens au Luxembourg. Luxemburg: Éditions Saint-Paul. p. 135. ISBN 2-87963-382-6.
  4. ""HOFFMANN Germaine"". Cercle Artistique de Luxembourg.
  5. Jos Welter (1993). Rétrospective : Cent ans d'art luxembourgeois 1893-1993. Luxemburg: Cercle Artistique de Luxembourg / Crauthem: Lux-Print. ISBN 2-919970-24-0.
  6. ""Casino Luxembourg to Exhibit Works of Local Artist Germaine Hoffmann"". Chronicle.lu. 24 August 2020.
  7. ""Germaine Hoffmann at Casino Luxembourg"". Daily Lazy. 2020. Archived from the original on 8 December 2023.
  8. "Portrait vun der Germaine Hoffmann". Cercle Artistique de Luxembourg. Archived from the original on 1 July 2018.
  9. "Trauer um Germaine Hoffmann: Luxemburger Künstlerin ist verstorben". www.wort.lu.
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